As a newcomer to the Mac, I was not at all interested in the App Store. Maybe I'm too cynical, but goddamn it, I'm proven right too often to change my ways. The App Store does not solve any existing problems for me, as a user. If I can find some app in their, then I could have Googled for the author's web site just as easily. I actually prefer apps that self-update, rather than having to open the inflexible App Store client..
The Mac app store gives real users many advantages:
One place to go to keep all applications updated.
One purchase let's you install on all your macs for no added expense.
The app has been code reviewed by Apple and certified virus free, privacy-respecting.
Reviews of the app are available to review. You get to feedback your own review to the world too.
You don't have to give payment detail, such as credit card info to a developer.
You don't have to give your personal info to a developer, who may resell it or have it hacked.
No need to keep backups of apps, you can redownload free after nuking your system.
The downsides:
Developers get more money than if they sold in physical stores, but less per unit than if they sold direct on their own website.
Developers can't hide adware or malware in their apps or app websites.
Apple knows what you bought.
Developers that don't want to let you run on all your machines for one price won't sell in the app store. Example: Microsoft Office for Mac.
Apps in same category are directly competing. It's like putting all the cereal in one aisle, the consumer has more choice visible. But if you're not in the app store, it is like selling in a farmer's market. Customers have to find you.
Tesla has apparently powered standby mode directly from the traction battery. Bad idea.
Standby mode in cars, especially electric cars and hybrids, is the not-exactly-off mode that a parked car is in. There is still power to various computers and sensors, so things like remote controls, charge timers, and informatics can function. The Leaf, Prius, and Volt, among others do this with a 12 volt auxiliary battery. The big traction battery is disconnected in this mode. To start the car, the 12 volt auxiliary is used to power the boot process of the computers and to energize the big contactor that connects the traction battery.
If you leave one of theses cars in standby too long the 12 volt drains down and you have to jump a 12 volt source to the 12 volt bus in order to boot the car. I know, I've done it.
Tesla seems to be powering standby mode directly from the traction battery. Volt does this too if you put it in Service Mode. In both cases, you can deep discharge the traction battery. Volt batteries are well protected from damage in that case. Tesla battery protection does not seem nearly as robust.
I last put gas in my Volt on 11/20/2011 (7 gallons). I have driven 2,358 miles since then, using a total of 5.4 gallons. Mostly on freeways at speeds between 45 and 75 mph depending on traffic. There's a public charger across the street from work, which is 31 miles from my house.
My best ever all electric range is 51.3 miles. My worst ever is 33.5.
My engine does not turn on ever unless the temperature is below 25F or the battery is at the designed lower limit of state of charge.
The car handles and drives wonderfully. I have, in 13,500 miles, rotated the tires. I will have to change the oil in a couple years. My lifetime average mpg is 158 mpg. Because I changed to a time of use schedule I have a lower electric bill now than I did before buying the car.
Hippocrates says "There are two things, knowledge and opinion, one of which makes the possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant."
Nissan actually has just published a detailed statement regarding range for the Leaf http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/range-disclaimer/index. Turns out that running the climate control has quite an effect on range. Part of that is the influence of temperature on batteries and part is the energy consumption of climate control. Heating is worse than cooling it seems.
The partial mitigation is being able to have the vehicle pre-condition the temperature while it's plugged in.
And the Leaf is rated for 90 MPH (150 KMPH).
Paid to stand in line and expect delivery by end-of-year.
I nearly had an EV-1 back in the day, but backed out when they refused to sell them, would only lease. This time should be the charm. The charger location is approved by my HOA and the install estimate is done, so it's just a matter of when Nissan can get production ramped up enough. there's a set of legacy chargers across from my office, so I have the option of plugging in during the day. And the city gives free parking to EV owners in their garages, so it is even subsidized. They just need to update the AVCON plug to the newer version and things should be set.
In the elementary and middle-school texts standard notation is rarely used. I've got a doctorate, but helping my kids through their math often is a real stumper. It is very common to use a box, a blank, or a parenthesis to indicate something that they are to fill in in a "number sentence".
The theory seems to be that you don't need to teach about unknowns and variables because that would be confusing. So this notation is somehow intuitively obvious to the least observant. As they may not cognitively be ready for the concept it becomes even more obscure. Have a look at the books sometime - you'll want to scream.
I can testify that the methods used up until the mid 1960's were MUCH more effective in creating mathematical literacy. The Stanford Studies Mathematical Group (SMSG) series of math texts was, to my memory, the flying wedge of what was termed then "The New Math". The strategies like 4+3+2=()+2 come from that movement.
Truth is, the "New Math" is a dismal failure and resulted in the destruction of the mathematical competency of two generations of American students. Unfortunately the math teachers now all came up through that system and have no idea that there is a better way to teach math.
TFA contemplates using either cadaver hearts or non-human (pig is the readily available animal with a compatible sized and structured heart). De-cellularizing those would remove the antigens that trigger rejection. Then using compatible stem cells to create a new histocompatible heart using the old framework. Pop into the patient.
Currently we use a de-cellularized pig heart valve as an implant. The patient's own cells invade the matrix and set up housekeeping, very much the way the fetal cells did in this demonstration.
One other advantage would be that the new organ would be 'young', not whatever age the donor might have been.
1. Won't have as big a disk, memory, and processor footprint. 2. Won't require learning new gotchas. 3. Will work with my peripherals that already work. 4. Will be compatible with my office's software, guaranteed. 5. Won't constantly call home. 6. Won't DRM me to death as badly as Vista does.
And, most importantly, Vista won't do anything that I value better than XP does.
You must have some logic for this preference, but I don't understand what it is. When the nipple-in-the-middle-of-the-keyboard was introduced, the idea was to keep you from needing to remove your hand from the keyboard in order to select text or move the cursor. At that time, the big criticism of the mouse, and of the Apple GUI, was that taking the hands from the keyboard reduced productivity. For the same reason, DOS people screamed bloody murder about not having keyboard shortcuts for EVERY function.
Nowadays, there are lots of times, like web surfing, that I think it's more of an interuption to put hands ON the keyboard. Even thinkpad comes with an alternative to the pointer-stick, because it's a completely hellish experience for most of us to use it.
Is have the interests of your company and your boss in mind. So you need to tell them, in language they will understand, both the problem and the possible solutions. You have to do this without making them look bad. In this case, a possible email or conversation (or both) goes something like this:
"You probably know that we buy a set of licenses for MS Office. Each license lets us install the suite on a single machine. We are contractually obligated to not install on more machines than we bought licenses. If we don't comply with that contract, we are liable for big penalties.
There is actually an organization out there that encourages employees to be 'whistle-blowers' against companies that violate the contract. Here's a couple news articles about the kind of trouble those companies have gotten into.
You hired me to do a good professional job for this company. Although it's easiest for me to just install more copies of Office than we have licensed, I owe it to you and to the company to let you know that doing that will expose me, you, and the executives to possible fines and even criminal actions. Professionally, I don't think that it is worth it. Anyway, my loyalty to you and the company means that I must raise the red flag sometimes.
I have several suggestions for how to get the company's needs met:
We can buy more licenses for office. X licenses will cost $xxx and xxx hours.
We can install a free version of Open Office that pretty much acts like office and would probably work for most of our users. X installations will use xxx hours.
We can install an application server and move X licenses from our workstations onto that server. XX users will be able to use office using the application server. Cost will be $xxx and xxx hours.
We can install X unlicensed versions of Office and accept the risk of fines of up to $xxx.
....
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I will hold on doing further installations until I have your written authorization for the action which the company authorizes."
Every person in the US either got here because they came from another country, or because their ancestors came here from another country. That includes the Native Americans, who got here over the land bridge. Americans have a long history of deciding to leave to go someplace better - including the westward migration, right up to the present day.
At least as far back as the 60's, customs could and did stop cars returning from Mexico that 'fit the profile' of drug smugglers and conducted very invasive searches, including disassembly. Seats were ripped to pieces, tires dismounted, and so on. All legal and with no recourse, even if nothing was found. If you were a 20ish guy with long hair in a VW, there was a fair chance of this happening.
Customs has been known to accidentally destroy small aircraft on arrival if they are suspected of carrying drugs. No liability for them when nothing is found.
The authority for lack of liability for the damage caused is "sovereign immunity", as reference in this case: Mid-South Holding Co. v. United States, which involved property damage sustained by a vessel during a search by the United States Customs Service and the United States Coast Guard ("Customs Service"). The Customs Service was called in to search the fishing vessel ABNER'S CHOICE on a tip that she was involved in narcotics trafficking. While the agents discovered no contraband, they were alleged to have unplugged the vessel's bilge pump during the search, which caused her to sink the following day. The vessel owners brought suit against the United States under the Suits in Admiralty Act ("SAA") to recover the value of the lost vessel. The United States gained summary judgment on the grounds that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the court concluded the United States enjoyed sovereign immunity in this case.
Maybe they will get it right this time, maybe not
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TFA shows (between the lines) how poor the programming is in the current DTV-+ box compared with the old DirecTivo. DirecTV's proprietary unit became our only choice after the DirecTivo died - and that meant:
Having to reboot at least once a week because of system freezes
Losing the ability to select between first run, re-run, or all episodes of a series
A lagging and unresponsive playback interface
No ability to see the title of a series episode unless you have more than one recorded
Frequently being told that you can't ask for something to be recorded because the 'list is full' of things automatically set to record in two weeks
Tech support whose only answer is 'press reset'.
Maybe they will update the software on our boxes to fix these (finally) if they have done it in their HD box. My advice is - get the Tivo HD DirecTV box if it's still available before DirecTV sticky you with only their own proprietary choice.
AND we used the paper tape punch, both to store the source code offline, and to create it in the first place. Too expensive to spend online connect-hours on typing, even at 300 baud. Print snoopy on LPT using characters. But the Apple II GR mode with 40 X 48 graphics in 8 colors was slick, even if we had to imitate lower case by using inverse characters.
Yes, I remember going downtown in SF to see the PC. For $1295 you got a machine with 16 K of memory, no graphics adapter, no floppy drives. You could hook it to a cassette recorder. Pretty much a clone of the bottom-end configuration of the Apple II, at about the same cost (no, Apples weren't significantly cheaper). What it had going for it was a keyboard that included lower-case and function keys . And the graphics modes of the color adapter were very impressive. Also it could be configured with an enormous 640 K of memory, which was more than the floppy drive held.
For the record, all the popular small systems of the time had third party add-ons. That's a tradition that goes back all the way to the Altair. The Apple II didn't even have an RF modulator, because a third-party deal saved some headaches for Apple. All the systems came with full documentation. Apple even gave you the source code for the whole ROM in a separate manual right in the box, along with the schematics. Cloning the BIOS happened long after the PC had established its place - and the first clones had significant compatibility problems. Clones really didn't take off until Compac beat IBM to market with a 386-based machine.
And the temps we are talking about are all above freezing. Back in school we used pigs feet fresh from the fridge to practice surgical techniques on. Ditto for cow's eyes - that's how one practices cataract procedures and so on. So, no, we really don't have to invent new techniques of surgery for this.
So your point is, he is better off dead than getting fixed? You can't sell that position to any trauma surgeon in this country. People do usually think they are better off being alive, even with major permanent damage, than being dead. At least the guys I knew from 'Nam were glad to be still alive - absent a few of the bad days, that is. Not a 100% thing, of course, but who would you like to make the 'better off dead' decision? To twist Richard Coeur d'Leon's aphorism "Fix 'em all, and let God sort 'em out!"
Actually, suspended animation is exactly what WOULD save a guy who was blown in half. It buys you time do do as complex a surgical procedure as you want, over as long a time as it takes to put the key bits back together again. You get a bloodless field to work in and can do microsurgical anastamoses to your hearts content.
So blown-in-half guy gets aorta and cava put back together; bone grafting and wiring or rodding his spinal column and an anastamosis of the spinal cord or cord amputation; clean up the damage to the kidneys and pancreas; do splenectomy if needed; multiple gut anastamoses and/or resections; and layered closures of the whole body wall. Nothing we don't do now - we just don't have time to do it.
"GM could hardly move any" is how GM likes to phrase it. GM actually refused to sell them. I would have bought one of them except that they weren't for sale - they were only leased, and you had to agree that you would turn it in at the end of the lease period. Also, the number made was very restricted and there was an onerous qualification process.
I waited three months for one of the first Priuses and a whole year for the hybrid Highlander. But GM wouldn't do even that much. BTW, the Prius was heavily subsidized by Toyota before the economy of scale tipped over into profit.
California State Driver's license certainly does not "double" as a state ID. It is not used to identify people on tax forms; it is not required to be carried at all unless operating a motor vehicle on public roads; it's not used at all as a key to health records, public benefits, etc. It is merely one of many possible ways to prove, in person, identity for some purposes.
A State ID is required for all citizens, is used as the key to identify that individual in most or all databanks.
People get bothered because a National ID creates a single key that can be used across all databases to enable "Total Information Awareness". While now you might have many driver's license numbers in your lifetime, innumerable credit cards, several passport numbers, health insurance number, plus your tax ID (which is illegal to use outside of very specific contexts), now there would be a way to tie them all together.
How long before it gets used as your library card, video rental card, purchasing card? How long before you have to show it to put a child into daycare? How about your health records? School grades?
No sense in keeping all this secret. So your potential employer gets to see how many times you go to the massage therapist for your back problem. Ditto what your favorite videos are, and how much your rent is. Who is sharing the house with you? What about the dust-up you had in school when you were 12? Sure, we don't care if you go to a bar every Friday...
So, apparently you consider the staff of National Geographic, which has used 35mm exclusively for the last 70 years to not be serious about photography. I guess the Leica M and Nikon F series were just beginner's cameras. Silly me.
Well, in California, if you lease a parking spot for your airplane at a government-owned airport, you will get a property tax bill for the value of the little chunk of real estate that you are leasing. The airport isn't paying property tax on it because it's the government, but the state still wants to get the tax because it's being used for a private purpose (parking your plane).
Were this not so, there would be a great tax avoidance strategy available by deeding property to a government agency contingent on an ultra long term, ultra cheap lease (1000 year lease at a dollar a year).
The concern that this innovation will raise costs is important. A few things to factor in, though:
These babies are generally very ill and are on ventilators with monitoring of heart, respirations, blood oxygen, and often blood carbon dioxide. They will have a line in the umbilical artery and/or vein used for hydration, medications, and drawing of frequent tests as well as monitoring of arterial and/or venous pressure.
In order to take them to a scanner located on the other side of the hospital, all this needs to be put onto battery power. The baby and the intensive care bed, monitors, iv pumps all need to be rolled off with at least a nurse and (if baby is ill enough) a neonatology doc in attendance.
Once at the scanner, now baby needs to be transferred to the machine from the intensive care bassinet. During transfer there's a significant risk if any of the tubes get dislodged, even by a few millimeters.
Now reverse the process to get back to the nursery.
Bottom line is that the mere process of transportation to a scanner has real risk to the baby. Since it costs an easy $10,000 US per day of neonatal intensive care, you don't have to avoid very many hospital days to pay for equipment.
Anyway, the justification will be from avoiding damage to babies that's caused by transporting them to scanners, I would think.
Why should I care if they know what I buy or where I drive? Sure, if I were running for office, it might help with a smear campaign, but other than that, what does it matter?
Maybe you don't have a reason to care, but lots and lots of your fellow citizens do have reasons.
Anything like this would be likely to have security leaks. Probably big ones. So what if someone with $1000 in hand could find out where your car is right now? Let's say it's:
1. Your ex-spouse, who has a grudge, a temper, and a.44 magnum.
2. The leader of the gang whose homey was just sentenced for a robbery that you were a witness to.
3. That person you met in the bar last week who just won't leave you alone.
4. The burglary ring who's looking for people more than 500 miles from home so they can have a nice cup of tea and a sit down while they are stripping your digs.
I'm sure everyone has other examples. And, by the way, not every person in law enforcement is unfailing honest and upright. Sometimes they fit right into scenarios like those above. Or worse. Just Google ' "Ramparts Division" Scandal' for an example.
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As a newcomer to the Mac, I was not at all interested in the App Store. Maybe I'm too cynical, but goddamn it, I'm proven right too often to change my ways. The App Store does not solve any existing problems for me, as a user. If I can find some app in their, then I could have Googled for the author's web site just as easily. I actually prefer apps that self-update, rather than having to open the inflexible App Store client. .
The Mac app store gives real users many advantages:
The downsides:
Standby mode in cars, especially electric cars and hybrids, is the not-exactly-off mode that a parked car is in. There is still power to various computers and sensors, so things like remote controls, charge timers, and informatics can function. The Leaf, Prius, and Volt, among others do this with a 12 volt auxiliary battery. The big traction battery is disconnected in this mode. To start the car, the 12 volt auxiliary is used to power the boot process of the computers and to energize the big contactor that connects the traction battery.
If you leave one of theses cars in standby too long the 12 volt drains down and you have to jump a 12 volt source to the 12 volt bus in order to boot the car. I know, I've done it.
Tesla seems to be powering standby mode directly from the traction battery. Volt does this too if you put it in Service Mode. In both cases, you can deep discharge the traction battery. Volt batteries are well protected from damage in that case. Tesla battery protection does not seem nearly as robust.
My best ever all electric range is 51.3 miles. My worst ever is 33.5.
My engine does not turn on ever unless the temperature is below 25F or the battery is at the designed lower limit of state of charge.
The car handles and drives wonderfully. I have, in 13,500 miles, rotated the tires. I will have to change the oil in a couple years. My lifetime average mpg is 158 mpg. Because I changed to a time of use schedule I have a lower electric bill now than I did before buying the car.
Hippocrates says "There are two things, knowledge and opinion, one of which makes the possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant."
Nissan actually has just published a detailed statement regarding range for the Leaf http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/range-disclaimer/index. Turns out that running the climate control has quite an effect on range. Part of that is the influence of temperature on batteries and part is the energy consumption of climate control. Heating is worse than cooling it seems. The partial mitigation is being able to have the vehicle pre-condition the temperature while it's plugged in. And the Leaf is rated for 90 MPH (150 KMPH).
Paid to stand in line and expect delivery by end-of-year. I nearly had an EV-1 back in the day, but backed out when they refused to sell them, would only lease. This time should be the charm. The charger location is approved by my HOA and the install estimate is done, so it's just a matter of when Nissan can get production ramped up enough. there's a set of legacy chargers across from my office, so I have the option of plugging in during the day. And the city gives free parking to EV owners in their garages, so it is even subsidized. They just need to update the AVCON plug to the newer version and things should be set.
In the elementary and middle-school texts standard notation is rarely used. I've got a doctorate, but helping my kids through their math often is a real stumper. It is very common to use a box, a blank, or a parenthesis to indicate something that they are to fill in in a "number sentence". The theory seems to be that you don't need to teach about unknowns and variables because that would be confusing. So this notation is somehow intuitively obvious to the least observant. As they may not cognitively be ready for the concept it becomes even more obscure. Have a look at the books sometime - you'll want to scream. I can testify that the methods used up until the mid 1960's were MUCH more effective in creating mathematical literacy. The Stanford Studies Mathematical Group (SMSG) series of math texts was, to my memory, the flying wedge of what was termed then "The New Math". The strategies like 4+3+2=()+2 come from that movement. Truth is, the "New Math" is a dismal failure and resulted in the destruction of the mathematical competency of two generations of American students. Unfortunately the math teachers now all came up through that system and have no idea that there is a better way to teach math.
Currently we use a de-cellularized pig heart valve as an implant. The patient's own cells invade the matrix and set up housekeeping, very much the way the fetal cells did in this demonstration.
One other advantage would be that the new organ would be 'young', not whatever age the donor might have been.
I'd downgrade because XP:
1. Won't have as big a disk, memory, and processor footprint.
2. Won't require learning new gotchas.
3. Will work with my peripherals that already work.
4. Will be compatible with my office's software, guaranteed.
5. Won't constantly call home.
6. Won't DRM me to death as badly as Vista does.
And, most importantly, Vista won't do anything that I value better than XP does.
You must have some logic for this preference, but I don't understand what it is. When the nipple-in-the-middle-of-the-keyboard was introduced, the idea was to keep you from needing to remove your hand from the keyboard in order to select text or move the cursor. At that time, the big criticism of the mouse, and of the Apple GUI, was that taking the hands from the keyboard reduced productivity. For the same reason, DOS people screamed bloody murder about not having keyboard shortcuts for EVERY function.
Nowadays, there are lots of times, like web surfing, that I think it's more of an interuption to put hands ON the keyboard. Even thinkpad comes with an alternative to the pointer-stick, because it's a completely hellish experience for most of us to use it.
"You probably know that we buy a set of licenses for MS Office. Each license lets us install the suite on a single machine. We are contractually obligated to not install on more machines than we bought licenses. If we don't comply with that contract, we are liable for big penalties.
There is actually an organization out there that encourages employees to be 'whistle-blowers' against companies that violate the contract. Here's a couple news articles about the kind of trouble those companies have gotten into.
You hired me to do a good professional job for this company. Although it's easiest for me to just install more copies of Office than we have licensed, I owe it to you and to the company to let you know that doing that will expose me, you, and the executives to possible fines and even criminal actions. Professionally, I don't think that it is worth it. Anyway, my loyalty to you and the company means that I must raise the red flag sometimes.
I have several suggestions for how to get the company's needs met:
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I will hold on doing further installations until I have your written authorization for the action which the company authorizes."
Every person in the US either got here because they came from another country, or because their ancestors came here from another country. That includes the Native Americans, who got here over the land bridge. Americans have a long history of deciding to leave to go someplace better - including the westward migration, right up to the present day.
Customs has been known to accidentally destroy small aircraft on arrival if they are suspected of carrying drugs. No liability for them when nothing is found.
The authority for the searches is 19 USC 1467.
The authority for lack of liability for the damage caused is "sovereign immunity", as reference in this case: Mid-South Holding Co. v. United States, which involved property damage sustained by a vessel during a search by the United States Customs Service and the United States Coast Guard ("Customs Service"). The Customs Service was called in to search the fishing vessel ABNER'S CHOICE on a tip that she was involved in narcotics trafficking. While the agents discovered no contraband, they were alleged to have unplugged the vessel's bilge pump during the search, which caused her to sink the following day. The vessel owners brought suit against the United States under the Suits in Admiralty Act ("SAA") to recover the value of the lost vessel. The United States gained summary judgment on the grounds that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the court concluded the United States enjoyed sovereign immunity in this case.
- Having to reboot at least once a week because of system freezes
- Losing the ability to select between first run, re-run, or all episodes of a series
- A lagging and unresponsive playback interface
- No ability to see the title of a series episode unless you have more than one recorded
- Frequently being told that you can't ask for something to be recorded because the 'list is full' of things automatically set to record in two weeks
- Tech support whose only answer is 'press reset'.
Maybe they will update the software on our boxes to fix these (finally) if they have done it in their HD box. My advice is - get the Tivo HD DirecTV box if it's still available before DirecTV sticky you with only their own proprietary choice.AND we used the paper tape punch, both to store the source code offline, and to create it in the first place. Too expensive to spend online connect-hours on typing, even at 300 baud. Print snoopy on LPT using characters. But the Apple II GR mode with 40 X 48 graphics in 8 colors was slick, even if we had to imitate lower case by using inverse characters.
For the record, all the popular small systems of the time had third party add-ons. That's a tradition that goes back all the way to the Altair. The Apple II didn't even have an RF modulator, because a third-party deal saved some headaches for Apple. All the systems came with full documentation. Apple even gave you the source code for the whole ROM in a separate manual right in the box, along with the schematics. Cloning the BIOS happened long after the PC had established its place - and the first clones had significant compatibility problems. Clones really didn't take off until Compac beat IBM to market with a 386-based machine.
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And the temps we are talking about are all above freezing. Back in school we used pigs feet fresh from the fridge to practice surgical techniques on. Ditto for cow's eyes - that's how one practices cataract procedures and so on. So, no, we really don't have to invent new techniques of surgery for this.
So your point is, he is better off dead than getting fixed? You can't sell that position to any trauma surgeon in this country. People do usually think they are better off being alive, even with major permanent damage, than being dead. At least the guys I knew from 'Nam were glad to be still alive - absent a few of the bad days, that is. Not a 100% thing, of course, but who would you like to make the 'better off dead' decision? To twist Richard Coeur d'Leon's aphorism "Fix 'em all, and let God sort 'em out!"
Actually, suspended animation is exactly what WOULD save a guy who was blown in half. It buys you time do do as complex a surgical procedure as you want, over as long a time as it takes to put the key bits back together again. You get a bloodless field to work in and can do microsurgical anastamoses to your hearts content.
So blown-in-half guy gets aorta and cava put back together; bone grafting and wiring or rodding his spinal column and an anastamosis of the spinal cord or cord amputation; clean up the damage to the kidneys and pancreas; do splenectomy if needed; multiple gut anastamoses and/or resections; and layered closures of the whole body wall. Nothing we don't do now - we just don't have time to do it.
I waited three months for one of the first Priuses and a whole year for the hybrid Highlander. But GM wouldn't do even that much. BTW, the Prius was heavily subsidized by Toyota before the economy of scale tipped over into profit.
A State ID is required for all citizens, is used as the key to identify that individual in most or all databanks.
How long before it gets used as your library card, video rental card, purchasing card? How long before you have to show it to put a child into daycare? How about your health records? School grades?
No sense in keeping all this secret. So your potential employer gets to see how many times you go to the massage therapist for your back problem. Ditto what your favorite videos are, and how much your rent is. Who is sharing the house with you? What about the dust-up you had in school when you were 12? Sure, we don't care if you go to a bar every Friday...
So, apparently you consider the staff of National Geographic, which has used 35mm exclusively for the last 70 years to not be serious about photography. I guess the Leica M and Nikon F series were just beginner's cameras. Silly me.
Were this not so, there would be a great tax avoidance strategy available by deeding property to a government agency contingent on an ultra long term, ultra cheap lease (1000 year lease at a dollar a year).
These babies are generally very ill and are on ventilators with monitoring of heart, respirations, blood oxygen, and often blood carbon dioxide. They will have a line in the umbilical artery and/or vein used for hydration, medications, and drawing of frequent tests as well as monitoring of arterial and/or venous pressure.
In order to take them to a scanner located on the other side of the hospital, all this needs to be put onto battery power. The baby and the intensive care bed, monitors, iv pumps all need to be rolled off with at least a nurse and (if baby is ill enough) a neonatology doc in attendance.
Once at the scanner, now baby needs to be transferred to the machine from the intensive care bassinet. During transfer there's a significant risk if any of the tubes get dislodged, even by a few millimeters.
Now reverse the process to get back to the nursery.
Bottom line is that the mere process of transportation to a scanner has real risk to the baby. Since it costs an easy $10,000 US per day of neonatal intensive care, you don't have to avoid very many hospital days to pay for equipment.
Anyway, the justification will be from avoiding damage to babies that's caused by transporting them to scanners, I would think.
Maybe you don't have a reason to care, but lots and lots of your fellow citizens do have reasons.
Anything like this would be likely to have security leaks. Probably big ones. So what if someone with $1000 in hand could find out where your car is right now? Let's say it's:
1. Your ex-spouse, who has a grudge, a temper, and a .44 magnum.
2. The leader of the gang whose homey was just sentenced for a robbery that you were a witness to.
3. That person you met in the bar last week who just won't leave you alone.
4. The burglary ring who's looking for people more than 500 miles from home so they can have a nice cup of tea and a sit down while they are stripping your digs.
I'm sure everyone has other examples. And, by the way, not every person in law enforcement is unfailing honest and upright. Sometimes they fit right into scenarios like those above. Or worse. Just Google ' "Ramparts Division" Scandal' for an example.