How close do the stars have to be to be considered a binary (or n-ary) system? Isn't every star in the galaxy ultimately rotating around every other star in the galaxy?
I would expect that congresscritters would be smart enough to discount any position expressed in the same exact email received 100,000 times. But perhaps I overestimate them; after all, I'd expect them not to try to pick up men in airport restrooms as well.
"Many spammers now have large staffs of people working on nothing but building out completely fake personas for non-existent users on social networking sites and blog networks. The spammers use these personas to create accounts Doesn't that make them astroturfers, not spammers?
If you are currently living in a van, you are much more likely to move in with the first girl that offers than if you already have a nice apartment. Trust me on this, I speak from experience!
How does this guy pick up a girl and convince her to go back to his van? He offers her ice cream and candy. It helps a lot if the van has the phase "ice cream", along with phallic-looking graphics of popsicles, printed on the side. Picking up women, on the other hand, is much more difficult.
You hire a lawyer who applies for a change of venue to the courtroom of his judge friend. Yes, I beat a traffic ticket on appeal once by doing exactly that -- and the cop issuing the ticket was not happy!
Just because "most people could pay for (it) most of the time" doesn't mean that people actually WILL pay for it most of the time! You socialize preventative care because it is basic human nature of people struggling to survive to put off paying for non-urgent expenses until they become emergencies, and thus much more expensive, while preventative care is cheap. Nothing should be socialized because of misplaced notions of "fairness", "entitlement", or "doing the right thing". Things should only be socialized when the net benefit to society as a whole exceeds the net cost to society as a whole. Helping out individuals is irrelevant (of course you're still very welcome do to do through private charity.) Some procedures are just too expensive to pay for providing these procedures to everyone without bankrupting society. Cold as it appears, our only viable alternative then is to let the free market decide who receives and who doesn't receive these procedures.
As far as bad genetics goes, I've always exercised, eaten right, and never been obese... and yet I have diabetes, just like my sister, my mother and my grandmother! My sisters have apparently chosen not to breed because of this; unfortunately, I didn't find out about my own diabetes until after I had a child. And now I'm being told my mother-in-law also has diabetes... sigh.
Isn't energy from the vacuum still a zero-sum game, that is, to get more energy in one place, there must be less energy in other place, so that the net energy of the universe remains unchanged? Sort of like how I'm freezing my ass off now in the coldest winter ever to make sure there is enough heat to melt the Arctic ice caps and endanger the polar bears?
He's the host of Nova Science Now on PBS. Actually, I find him to be annoying and not that bright, but his appeal is that he is the perfect everyman, that is, someone that anyone can relate to regardless of gender or ethnicity. I doubt his abilities to do real science, but he makes a good spokesman.
Do we stop judges from hooking up with their lawyer friends in public? Given what the phrase hooking up means in the current vernacular, I would say yes, we definitely do stop judges from hooking up with their lawyer friends in public!
Price lists only work if hospitals are not forced to provide services for non-paying customers. As it currently stands, the price of everything (especially emergency room services) is significantly padded to cover the overhead of providing services to those who will never pay. I agree that full upfront disclosure of costs is important, but unfortunately most people do very little comparison shopping while riding in the back of an ambulance. Do you shop around for the absolute cheapest hotels when your company is footing the bill? Why do you think patients will shop around when an insurance company is footing the bill?
I believe it is in our public interest to subsidize preventative care (e.g. vaccinations and pre-natal care) and routine tests. It is NOT in our public interest to subsidize catastrophic care, especially for conditions caused or aggravated by poor life decisions. E.g. heart surgery should only be covered by private insurance, not government. I'm not sure where trauma care fits into this picture, but it's probably similar to fire departments -- everybody should kick in to handle the emergencies of the few. This is only viable if you can stop people from using emergency rooms as their primary source of health care, and only use them for real emergencies.
Don't confuse neo-conservatives with Replicans. GW Bush was NOT a good Republican; he diverged widely from traditional Republican values of fiscal conservatism and personal responsibility.
Libertarianism is an option for someone who believes in liberty in all areas, but you are correct, it is not currently a viable political party in most elections.
The free market doesn't work for health care. Amen to that. Health care is the only industry I know of where having several competing providers in a single market makes costs go up instead of down.
I've always held that cancer holds within it the secret to immortality. Aging is caused by cells stopping reproduction over time, in cancer reproduction is turned back on and occurs without any regulation. Viable life walks that razors edge between too much and not enough cell reproduction. Find a way to better control it, and cancer-like turning off of the telomeres could be use to extend life.
In another Zen-like turnabout, if viruses could be modified to make them accurately target only diseased cells, then viruses could be used to cure disease instead of causing it, e.g. a variant of Herpes virus could be used to target cancerous cells (and would remain in the system to deal with a remission should it occur.)
Yes, these are pie-in-the-sky crackpot theories, but the point is that there is no telling what we might make possible by studying these phenomena.
One of my best friends, who eventually became student government president, lived in his van when he first came to school in 1980. Heck, I lived in my van for a while in college too, but I was parked next to the frat house for showers and food (about the same as sleeping on the couch, but with more privacy.)
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That's only a 1 minute 27 second segment... where's the link to the full 24-hour video? (And wouldn't looping it every 12 hours be just as effective?)
Frightening... not only has google already indexed the parent, but it's number 2 in the rankings for the linked search!
They should have named this book The Zen of Xen.
How close do the stars have to be to be considered a binary (or n-ary) system? Isn't every star in the galaxy ultimately rotating around every other star in the galaxy?
I would expect that congresscritters would be smart enough to discount any position expressed in the same exact email received 100,000 times. But perhaps I overestimate them; after all, I'd expect them not to try to pick up men in airport restrooms as well.
"Many spammers now have large staffs of people working on nothing but building out completely fake personas for non-existent users on social networking sites and blog networks. The spammers use these personas to create accounts Doesn't that make them astroturfers, not spammers?
If you are currently living in a van, you are much more likely to move in with the first girl that offers than if you already have a nice apartment. Trust me on this, I speak from experience!
How does this guy pick up a girl and convince her to go back to his van? He offers her ice cream and candy. It helps a lot if the van has the phase "ice cream", along with phallic-looking graphics of popsicles, printed on the side. Picking up women, on the other hand, is much more difficult.
You hire a lawyer who applies for a change of venue to the courtroom of his judge friend. Yes, I beat a traffic ticket on appeal once by doing exactly that -- and the cop issuing the ticket was not happy!
Just because "most people could pay for (it) most of the time" doesn't mean that people actually WILL pay for it most of the time! You socialize preventative care because it is basic human nature of people struggling to survive to put off paying for non-urgent expenses until they become emergencies, and thus much more expensive, while preventative care is cheap. Nothing should be socialized because of misplaced notions of "fairness", "entitlement", or "doing the right thing". Things should only be socialized when the net benefit to society as a whole exceeds the net cost to society as a whole. Helping out individuals is irrelevant (of course you're still very welcome do to do through private charity.) Some procedures are just too expensive to pay for providing these procedures to everyone without bankrupting society. Cold as it appears, our only viable alternative then is to let the free market decide who receives and who doesn't receive these procedures.
As far as bad genetics goes, I've always exercised, eaten right, and never been obese... and yet I have diabetes, just like my sister, my mother and my grandmother! My sisters have apparently chosen not to breed because of this; unfortunately, I didn't find out about my own diabetes until after I had a child. And now I'm being told my mother-in-law also has diabetes... sigh.
Isn't energy from the vacuum still a zero-sum game, that is, to get more energy in one place, there must be less energy in other place, so that the net energy of the universe remains unchanged? Sort of like how I'm freezing my ass off now in the coldest winter ever to make sure there is enough heat to melt the Arctic ice caps and endanger the polar bears?
He's the host of Nova Science Now on PBS. Actually, I find him to be annoying and not that bright, but his appeal is that he is the perfect everyman, that is, someone that anyone can relate to regardless of gender or ethnicity. I doubt his abilities to do real science, but he makes a good spokesman.
Do we stop judges from hooking up with their lawyer friends in public? Given what the phrase hooking up means in the current vernacular, I would say yes, we definitely do stop judges from hooking up with their lawyer friends in public!
Fact is, if you're stupid enough to hire a lawyer that isn't friends with the judge, you're going to get screwed in our legal system.
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was always my favorite comment (especially with the "wave" effect) -- guess I'm still a bit immature.
Price lists only work if hospitals are not forced to provide services for non-paying customers. As it currently stands, the price of everything (especially emergency room services) is significantly padded to cover the overhead of providing services to those who will never pay. I agree that full upfront disclosure of costs is important, but unfortunately most people do very little comparison shopping while riding in the back of an ambulance. Do you shop around for the absolute cheapest hotels when your company is footing the bill? Why do you think patients will shop around when an insurance company is footing the bill?
I believe it is in our public interest to subsidize preventative care (e.g. vaccinations and pre-natal care) and routine tests. It is NOT in our public interest to subsidize catastrophic care, especially for conditions caused or aggravated by poor life decisions. E.g. heart surgery should only be covered by private insurance, not government. I'm not sure where trauma care fits into this picture, but it's probably similar to fire departments -- everybody should kick in to handle the emergencies of the few. This is only viable if you can stop people from using emergency rooms as their primary source of health care, and only use them for real emergencies.
Don't confuse neo-conservatives with Replicans. GW Bush was NOT a good Republican; he diverged widely from traditional Republican values of fiscal conservatism and personal responsibility.
Libertarianism is an option for someone who believes in liberty in all areas, but you are correct, it is not currently a viable political party in most elections.
The free market doesn't work for health care. Amen to that. Health care is the only industry I know of where having several competing providers in a single market makes costs go up instead of down.
Better to move the gene to the recycling bin, to make sure it doesn't accidentally get used.
In study after study, scientists have been conclusively proven to cause cancer in laboratory rats.
I've always held that cancer holds within it the secret to immortality. Aging is caused by cells stopping reproduction over time, in cancer reproduction is turned back on and occurs without any regulation. Viable life walks that razors edge between too much and not enough cell reproduction. Find a way to better control it, and cancer-like turning off of the telomeres could be use to extend life.
In another Zen-like turnabout, if viruses could be modified to make them accurately target only diseased cells, then viruses could be used to cure disease instead of causing it, e.g. a variant of Herpes virus could be used to target cancerous cells (and would remain in the system to deal with a remission should it occur.)
Yes, these are pie-in-the-sky crackpot theories, but the point is that there is no telling what we might make possible by studying these phenomena.
Uh oh, she sounds Sirius!
One of my best friends, who eventually became student government president, lived in his van when he first came to school in 1980. Heck, I lived in my van for a while in college too, but I was parked next to the frat house for showers and food (about the same as sleeping on the couch, but with more privacy.)
Sadly, this news is a little to late for Christopher Reeve...
The existence of particles in a vacuum? That sounds exactly like the aether, a scientific theory that was abandoned about 200 years ago!
At this point, I'd settle for a trip to Hawaii... it's fucking cold here!