In that you only need a trained clinician (say even a nurse) with training in the procedure, and could use this in any office, thus allowing screening in small towns as part of a visiting nurse program for screening, which would even further reduce the cost from the current device limitations that require anesthesia to use (which always has a risk).
Besides, say it got lost, the small filament size (1.4 mm) would allow it to exit through the digestive tract and be recollected.
Just because some people have a harder time learning does not mean they can't learn.
It's just harder.
Seriously, it doesn't mean they don't learn (the title of this/. post), it means they have a lower capability.
It's like saying that Americans can't speak more than two languages. Most have never tried, nor had the easy resources to do so, but they could probably learn additional languages, even if it might be harder here.
In Medical Genetics, we are very aware that the mother can frequently have immunities from all the embryonic stem cells from all her children, as well as her mother's children, and that later children have such stem cells and immunities from all their siblings - including from many of the non-viable pregnancies (not as much the ones that don't survive a few weeks, but stillborn children). Twins - fraternal, as identical have same germ line - share the cells of their siblings. Some twins are reabsorbed into the other twin, as well, resulting in a surviving child with both genetic structures, one predominant but the other continuing to "live" inside the body in survivor cells.
The great thing about Pluripotent Stem Cells is that we may be able to do similar things by altering your own tissue into an embryonic cell, fixing the genetic deficit, and reinjecting the functional cells into your own body, where they can have a functioning immune system that is totally compatible with your own body and not be rejected.
Not sure how to take the 10 million subscribers, really. When the servers in the US haven't seen a new Realm in months.
Well, it depends on where you are - here on the West Coast of the US, many of us who are night owls play on some of the Oceanic servers and have no probs finding a new realm.
And some servers are just imbalanced between Alliance and Horde - one of the servers my son and I play on is something like 44:1 Alliance:Horde - we're Horde and you have Alliance raids in all the major cities almost every day. Many of which succeed.
In reality, based on license and usage fees, WiMax is an attempt to get people to pay for what increasingly is free Wireless access that most people have with laptops nowadays.
That said, bandwidth caps are also not a smart move, as most modern industrialized nations already have high speed Net access that is typically 2 to 10 times faster than what we have in the USA - even Canada has higher speeds.
A smart policy is to realize that more bandwith (e.g. the Comcast 160 speeds) should be pushed to give the USA a greater competitive advantage, and that bandwidth caps work to cripple our industrial and commercial competitiveness as a nation.
I think this is great news, as it means I have no reason to upgrade my WinXP laptop and PC until 2010.
WinVista was such a resource hog, and made our computers go slower, so we specifically reloaded WinXP on the few remaining non-Linux boxen at work, and have been looking at replacement MS Office packages and databases since then.
1. Waterboard officials that sent, received, and/or processed said emails until they tell you what they want to hear.
2. Use forensic investigation tools used by any data recovery unit on the originating computers, all servers, all servers for the ISPs, all receiving computers and devices, and all archives and backups for all said computers.
3. With the resulting emails, hire an independent prosecuting attorney to have testimony under oath by all said participants and those referred to in the 999,999 emails found. Grant limited immunity only on condition of the guilty being sentenced.
4. Hold a nationwide lottery for the resulting firing squads after the impeachment, indictment, and convictions of the guilty party - this should raise enough to reduce the national debt significantly.
According to the current CNN article, 17 US states have either State Constitutions that legally override this non-interstate commerce regulation or have otherwise sued on behalf of the legal State Privacy rights of their citizens.
You can read about the legal suits by 17 states and decide if this is just Big Brother, or a bunch of privacy-hating anti-American bureaucratic incompetents who hate our values.
But it should be noted that the 17 states represent more than 50 percent of the US economy, and most legal jurists agree that it is unlikely that the US Supreme Court will strike down the states legal objections. Unless they want us to activate our state militias - and considering we control most of the armed forces, that might not be such a great concept.
I don't think you read my explanation of why that's not so.
* A centralized ID with RFID chips will be standard among all American citizens
Again, not all American citizens, only you non-Boomers. We Boomers are EXEMPT. Which part of Not Going To Be Required To Have This are you missing?
* Unknown to the general populace, the chip will be scanned using sensors in various public places
It already is. Some terrorist groups have started surveillance of US passports with RFID in Germany, so they can clone the numbers for attacks. While this may not be generally well-known, it is already happening.
* After recognizing the individual, a query gets wrapped up and sent to the fed RDBMS:
INSERT into citizen_activities (id, place, time) VALUES ("L520-AC38-F09C", "Transit Station 64C", NOW());
Unless they shielded it. A number of states have decided not to implement RealID, and are protected from doing so by their State Constitutions, which override presidential authorizations. Only a US Constitutional amendment can override these, or a US Supreme Court ruling to that effect, and most legal scholars have come out saying that such a ruling is highly unlikely.
* Very soon, the government can track all of our activities
No. They can track your activities. I was born in 1960 and I live in one of those states. I also have a 20 year passport that was issued pre-RFID.
Good to know we uppity Boomers don't have to worry about this.
Even if it's illegal to do this according to my State Constitution - and our State Attorney General has already told the feds we and a number of other states will not be implementing RealID and they can jump off a short pier.
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In that you only need a trained clinician (say even a nurse) with training in the procedure, and could use this in any office, thus allowing screening in small towns as part of a visiting nurse program for screening, which would even further reduce the cost from the current device limitations that require anesthesia to use (which always has a risk).
Besides, say it got lost, the small filament size (1.4 mm) would allow it to exit through the digestive tract and be recollected.
Seriously, we know there are some pretty smart people in the US. What we cannot figure out is why they are not leaving.
Well, our L1 and L2 visas haven't expired yet.
Just because some people have a harder time learning does not mean they can't learn.
/. post), it means they have a lower capability.
It's just harder.
Seriously, it doesn't mean they don't learn (the title of this
It's like saying that Americans can't speak more than two languages. Most have never tried, nor had the easy resources to do so, but they could probably learn additional languages, even if it might be harder here.
True, but most of the media didn't catch that the blood type change was remarkable, sadly.
Good point.
I for one am looking forward, after April 29th, to all the camera crews here in Seattle for the upcoming GTA: Emerald City.
... well, except the cute ones ...
And I'm jacking the copter from on top of Seattle Grace (KOMO TV) and buzzing the crab on top of the Space Needle!
Might even shoot me some interns
In Medical Genetics, we are very aware that the mother can frequently have immunities from all the embryonic stem cells from all her children, as well as her mother's children, and that later children have such stem cells and immunities from all their siblings - including from many of the non-viable pregnancies (not as much the ones that don't survive a few weeks, but stillborn children). Twins - fraternal, as identical have same germ line - share the cells of their siblings. Some twins are reabsorbed into the other twin, as well, resulting in a surviving child with both genetic structures, one predominant but the other continuing to "live" inside the body in survivor cells.
The great thing about Pluripotent Stem Cells is that we may be able to do similar things by altering your own tissue into an embryonic cell, fixing the genetic deficit, and reinjecting the functional cells into your own body, where they can have a functioning immune system that is totally compatible with your own body and not be rejected.
Science Rules!
My son watches YouTube, Japanese anime, reads manga, and uses the web for something like 80 percent of the time, instead of TV.
He's fairly similar to most teens nowadays.
The change already happened.
And the nutso TV/movie insistence on not paying writers is just making people stop watching TV.
Not sure how to take the 10 million subscribers, really. When the servers in the US haven't seen a new Realm in months.
Well, it depends on where you are - here on the West Coast of the US, many of us who are night owls play on some of the Oceanic servers and have no probs finding a new realm.
And some servers are just imbalanced between Alliance and Horde - one of the servers my son and I play on is something like 44:1 Alliance:Horde - we're Horde and you have Alliance raids in all the major cities almost every day. Many of which succeed.
And I for one am thankful at least one government official realizes this.
If I wanted DRM, I wouldn't have served seven years in the Canadian Army.
Want to change the Canadian Constitutional guarantees of privacy?
Nuh uh.
One browser to Rule them all
One browser to BIND them
One browser to Rule them all
And in the darkness upgrade them
Three modes for the Geek Lords
Full of compatibility issues
Five modes for the Dwarven kings
Running at level Five
Seven modes for the Trekkers
Doomed to watch reruns
Nine modes for Mortal users
Doomed to die in the Aqua Screen of Death
One Browser to Rule Them All
One Browser to BIND them
One Browser in Redmond Lands
Losing market share
Good points. I'm currently thinking Linux or a Mac laptop - or maybe a Mac or Linux desktop connected to an HDTV I'll buy in 2009.
In reality, based on license and usage fees, WiMax is an attempt to get people to pay for what increasingly is free Wireless access that most people have with laptops nowadays.
That said, bandwidth caps are also not a smart move, as most modern industrialized nations already have high speed Net access that is typically 2 to 10 times faster than what we have in the USA - even Canada has higher speeds.
A smart policy is to realize that more bandwith (e.g. the Comcast 160 speeds) should be pushed to give the USA a greater competitive advantage, and that bandwidth caps work to cripple our industrial and commercial competitiveness as a nation.
I think this is great news, as it means I have no reason to upgrade my WinXP laptop and PC until 2010.
WinVista was such a resource hog, and made our computers go slower, so we specifically reloaded WinXP on the few remaining non-Linux boxen at work, and have been looking at replacement MS Office packages and databases since then.
1. Waterboard officials that sent, received, and/or processed said emails until they tell you what they want to hear.
2. Use forensic investigation tools used by any data recovery unit on the originating computers, all servers, all servers for the ISPs, all receiving computers and devices, and all archives and backups for all said computers.
3. With the resulting emails, hire an independent prosecuting attorney to have testimony under oath by all said participants and those referred to in the 999,999 emails found. Grant limited immunity only on condition of the guilty being sentenced.
4. Hold a nationwide lottery for the resulting firing squads after the impeachment, indictment, and convictions of the guilty party - this should raise enough to reduce the national debt significantly.
5. Party like it's 1999!
I for one like the ability to literally ignore it.
And I'll buy HDTV sometime in 2009 when it's cheaper (already have cable so my set will still work).
oh. sorry, I keep forgetting people don't know it's such a waste to even bother with such stuff on a Mac.
What I want to know is... What happens after the year 9999? Ever think of that?
I think we go hex then. You know, A000.
Real security experts telnet to port 80 and hand craft their HTTP requests. It's the only way to be sure!
I prefer port 8080 myself, but then I used to check the CERN beamline just for fun.
I mean, if you have a Mac, it's not like it's a problem anyway ...
Seriously, it can take me a long time to run a backup over the other ports, how come the Macbook Air doesn't have a Firewire port?
USB is painfully slow.
I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn.
...
How's that $9 trillion dollar national debt as we go into an undeclared recession working out for you?
Have you had enough yet, or should we point out that President Clinton will be using this to spy on your emails and taking away your guns?
(chirp chirp chirp)
Hmmm, awful quiet now
I for one welcome our new security policy and am proud to live as a ...
(jackboots approach)
(hood put over speaker's head)
(thud as head is whacked)
(sounds of unconscious body dragged away by jackbooted NSA thugs)
According to the current CNN article, 17 US states have either State Constitutions that legally override this non-interstate commerce regulation or have otherwise sued on behalf of the legal State Privacy rights of their citizens.
You can read about the legal suits by 17 states and decide if this is just Big Brother, or a bunch of privacy-hating anti-American bureaucratic incompetents who hate our values.
But it should be noted that the 17 states represent more than 50 percent of the US economy, and most legal jurists agree that it is unlikely that the US Supreme Court will strike down the states legal objections. Unless they want us to activate our state militias - and considering we control most of the armed forces, that might not be such a great concept.
I don't think you read my explanation of why that's not so.
* A centralized ID with RFID chips will be standard among all American citizens
Again, not all American citizens, only you non-Boomers. We Boomers are EXEMPT. Which part of Not Going To Be Required To Have This are you missing?
* Unknown to the general populace, the chip will be scanned using sensors in various public places
It already is. Some terrorist groups have started surveillance of US passports with RFID in Germany, so they can clone the numbers for attacks. While this may not be generally well-known, it is already happening.
* After recognizing the individual, a query gets wrapped up and sent to the fed RDBMS:
INSERT into citizen_activities (id, place, time) VALUES ("L520-AC38-F09C", "Transit Station 64C", NOW());
Unless they shielded it. A number of states have decided not to implement RealID, and are protected from doing so by their State Constitutions, which override presidential authorizations. Only a US Constitutional amendment can override these, or a US Supreme Court ruling to that effect, and most legal scholars have come out saying that such a ruling is highly unlikely.
* Very soon, the government can track all of our activities
No. They can track your activities. I was born in 1960 and I live in one of those states. I also have a 20 year passport that was issued pre-RFID.
Now, get off my lawn, you young wippersnapper!
Good to know we uppity Boomers don't have to worry about this.
Even if it's illegal to do this according to my State Constitution - and our State Attorney General has already told the feds we and a number of other states will not be implementing RealID and they can jump off a short pier.