What they did was try to prevent tax dollars being used to harvest unborn babies.
President Bush opposed embryonic stem cell research on ideological grounds. He exercised his first presidential veto on July 19, 2006 when he refused to allow H.R. 810 to become law. http://usliberals.about.com/od/stemcellresearch/a/HR810.htm
That's got nothing to do with unborn babies, he opposed using the waste cells from IVF treatments.
Joint implants are not titanium. No, no no. That's a myth that won't die.
No, sorry it is you that is mistaken. Medical grade titanium (Ti6Al4V Grade 5) is widely used for joint implants because it is biocompatible and MR safe. ASTM-75 is only classified as MR Conditional at best so its effect on MR image quality and localized tissue heating has not yet been fully established.
Just do a search on Titanium joint implant and you'll see they do in fact exist and are quite popular
I don't know if this is still done, but I suspect it probably is
We live in a world where corporations (or more correctly their suppliers) lace everyday items such as milk, baby formula baby toys and dog foods with a variety of toxic substances just to increase their profits. So if this is done on legitimate product what the heck do you think criminals will do to black market substances??
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you are making it that inconvenient to get at your data why not just delete it? Basically it just makes it look like you are hiding illegal activities to do something like that.
Completely agree. The first run through is to get it working with simple, very easy to understand code. Absolutely nothing fancy. Once it works, THEN you check the performance and optimize only those modules that need it. Simple code is far more likely to be bug free than come convoluted pile of packed code that no one but the writer understands. For some reason coders take pride in the fact that they can write code that works but no one else can read (even though the simple version would have taken an hour and they took a week). Baffling.
No I'm not talking about sloppy bad code with bugs that allow exploits. I'm talking functioning *working* code that's been *tested* to be correct, but don't happen to match the aesthetics standards, or 'wow that's a cool way of doing it' standard of a developer that thinks hes top shit. Problems have to be fixed, but changing code to make it more elegant or efficient when there is no performance reason to, or making it run in 3 lines of convoluted code instead of 10 or 20 of very clear easy to understand code is just moronic.
The problem comes down to you get a developer who believes the beauty of the code is the only thing worth looking at. He then gets assigned to add some features to existing code, looks at *other* parts of the code that don't need to be changed, are completed and are fully tested, reacts with horror saying 'what idiot wrote this piece of crap?!?' and then proceeds to spend a month rewriting it, breaking multiple other things in the process cause he doesn't understand the code. THATS the problem and it happens ALL the time.
Irrelevant. You either are a doctor and can legitimately be called one or you are a fraud. Same goes for engineer. Now is it possible for an untrained person to have the skillset of a doctor or an engineer? A long shot but possible yes. But that's not the issue.
I was going to ask the same question. Basically there will never be games on Linux because of this hippie / commie 'everythings gotta b e open source and free!' attitude. Can't make any money if your products are all copied and stolen.
A computer scientist who's also a programmer not only does the same thing but with the added goals in mind of making his code the most efficient running code possible on the target platform while understanding why a particular collection of code is the most efficient it can be upon the target platform.
Which is EXACTLY why software development programs tend to be massively over budget and often don't work properly at the end of the day. Like who gives a rats ass if the matrix multiply is the most efficient it can possibly be if the overall system still meets the requirements with an inefficient matrix multiply?? You people spend so much time optimizing the academic worthless shit that there is no time left to actually finish the project, and then you blame management for unrealistic deadlines. Just get it working, make sure the code is clean and easy to understand, and move on to the next task!
In my undergrad, there was only about 4 courses that were the same in the Cs and CompEng programs. And the CS people tended to do incredibly poorly in them as they lacked the background courses.
Cancellation of the Ares program is estimated to kill 40,000 jobs when all is said and done. Solyndra had 3000 employees. At least the "Bush" program had 37,000 more people working, and by Obama administration logic that makes the Ares program 12x more effective in helping the nation.
So you seem to be all for a socialist program as long as its Republican backed, even if it it makes no logical sense whatsoever to continue with the program.
Current US ITAR rules prevent any country from doing business with China where that business is possibly military related (which space is currently classified). So yea if China wants to go into space they have to do it alone - it's not Chinas decision to not cooperate.
I know you're trying to be funny, but I find it completely hypocritical that the only US citizens with true socialized healthcare are the military and the politicians. Ordinary citizens on the other hand are left to rot.
Sort of agree. If I baby my Escape Hybrid SUV, I get real world average (highway/city/country) of between 36 to 40mpg. If I drive like I always did, I get 32 to 35mpg. However this is about twice what I was getting in the non hybrid v6 I was driving before that with no change in perceived power or acceleration. So yes the mpg is overstated but so is the gas version. regardless the hybrid gets far better mileage in my experience and I'd get another without hesitation.
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What they did was try to prevent tax dollars being used to harvest unborn babies.
President Bush opposed embryonic stem cell research on ideological grounds. He exercised his first presidential veto on July 19, 2006 when he refused to allow H.R. 810 to become law. http://usliberals.about.com/od/stemcellresearch/a/HR810.htm
That's got nothing to do with unborn babies, he opposed using the waste cells from IVF treatments.
Joint implants are not titanium. No, no no. That's a myth that won't die.
No, sorry it is you that is mistaken. Medical grade titanium (Ti6Al4V Grade 5) is widely used for joint implants because it is biocompatible and MR safe. ASTM-75 is only classified as MR Conditional at best so its effect on MR image quality and localized tissue heating has not yet been fully established.
Just do a search on Titanium joint implant and you'll see they do in fact exist and are quite popular
The crackpot Republicans effectively banned it in the US
I don't know if this is still done, but I suspect it probably is
We live in a world where corporations (or more correctly their suppliers) lace everyday items such as milk, baby formula baby toys and dog foods with a variety of toxic substances just to increase their profits. So if this is done on legitimate product what the heck do you think criminals will do to black market substances??
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you are making it that inconvenient to get at your data why not just delete it? Basically it just makes it look like you are hiding illegal activities to do something like that.
Completely agree. The first run through is to get it working with simple, very easy to understand code. Absolutely nothing fancy. Once it works, THEN you check the performance and optimize only those modules that need it. Simple code is far more likely to be bug free than come convoluted pile of packed code that no one but the writer understands. For some reason coders take pride in the fact that they can write code that works but no one else can read (even though the simple version would have taken an hour and they took a week). Baffling.
No I'm not talking about sloppy bad code with bugs that allow exploits. I'm talking functioning *working* code that's been *tested* to be correct, but don't happen to match the aesthetics standards, or 'wow that's a cool way of doing it' standard of a developer that thinks hes top shit. Problems have to be fixed, but changing code to make it more elegant or efficient when there is no performance reason to, or making it run in 3 lines of convoluted code instead of 10 or 20 of very clear easy to understand code is just moronic.
The problem comes down to you get a developer who believes the beauty of the code is the only thing worth looking at. He then gets assigned to add some features to existing code, looks at *other* parts of the code that don't need to be changed, are completed and are fully tested, reacts with horror saying 'what idiot wrote this piece of crap?!?' and then proceeds to spend a month rewriting it, breaking multiple other things in the process cause he doesn't understand the code. THATS the problem and it happens ALL the time.
Irrelevant. You either are a doctor and can legitimately be called one or you are a fraud. Same goes for engineer. Now is it possible for an untrained person to have the skillset of a doctor or an engineer? A long shot but possible yes. But that's not the issue.
I get over 600fps on minesweeper
I was going to ask the same question. Basically there will never be games on Linux because of this hippie / commie 'everythings gotta b e open source and free!' attitude. Can't make any money if your products are all copied and stolen.
A computer scientist who's also a programmer not only does the same thing but with the added goals in mind of making his code the most efficient running code possible on the target platform while understanding why a particular collection of code is the most efficient it can be upon the target platform.
Which is EXACTLY why software development programs tend to be massively over budget and often don't work properly at the end of the day. Like who gives a rats ass if the matrix multiply is the most efficient it can possibly be if the overall system still meets the requirements with an inefficient matrix multiply?? You people spend so much time optimizing the academic worthless shit that there is no time left to actually finish the project, and then you blame management for unrealistic deadlines. Just get it working, make sure the code is clean and easy to understand, and move on to the next task!
In my undergrad, there was only about 4 courses that were the same in the Cs and CompEng programs. And the CS people tended to do incredibly poorly in them as they lacked the background courses.
I was going more along the lines of ten years of designing and writing stable, mission-critical server systems.
So if you happened to be practicing medicine without a degree or training for 10 years, do you think that gives you the right to be called a doctor?
I think you meant buy a Blackberry.
Cancellation of the Ares program is estimated to kill 40,000 jobs when all is said and done. Solyndra had 3000 employees. At least the "Bush" program had 37,000 more people working, and by Obama administration logic that makes the Ares program 12x more effective in helping the nation.
So you seem to be all for a socialist program as long as its Republican backed, even if it it makes no logical sense whatsoever to continue with the program.
Current US ITAR rules prevent any country from doing business with China where that business is possibly military related (which space is currently classified). So yea if China wants to go into space they have to do it alone - it's not Chinas decision to not cooperate.
Since when is health care a 'distribution of goods'? Its a service just like the police, fire and education, and should likewise be free.
I know you're trying to be funny, but I find it completely hypocritical that the only US citizens with true socialized healthcare are the military and the politicians. Ordinary citizens on the other hand are left to rot.
I don't remember seeing them burning pairs of Levi's or throwing cases of Coke into the harbor...
You didn't live during the cold war did you? Russians never had access to Levis or Coke any more than we had access to Russian cars.
They're only more expensive because of the lower volumes. With government rebates my hybrid was the same purchase price as the non-hybrid version.
Sort of agree. If I baby my Escape Hybrid SUV, I get real world average (highway/city/country) of between 36 to 40mpg. If I drive like I always did, I get 32 to 35mpg. However this is about twice what I was getting in the non hybrid v6 I was driving before that with no change in perceived power or acceleration. So yes the mpg is overstated but so is the gas version. regardless the hybrid gets far better mileage in my experience and I'd get another without hesitation.
Ever see the result of a Mazda Miata hitting a transport truck? I have. YOu couldn't even tell the color of the Miata and the transport was unharmed.
I live in Canada - I don't pay for anything except maybe parking.
Your comments about lowest common denominator doctors show you dont have a clue what you are talking about.