Well, sportsfan, your Dr. Barach is an ass. H. Pylori is not easy to diagnose...requires an endoscopic procedure. It's not easy to treat. The regimen is TWO antibiotics and an acid blocker like Nexium or Prevacid for 30 days. The rate of recurrence is 5-20%. I was in that group and did the "triple threat" treatment all over again. After 5 years being symptom free, I just had my 5th EGD (dope and scope) and was informed that the years of damage by H. Pylori have given me Barrett's Esophagus, a tissue change that can lead to cancer. This didn't happen overnight...it took over 20 years. If some of the doctors I saw during that time had been looking for H. Pylori, I might have avoided this.
Jaysyn,
The specifics are in the 1st part of the book. When I met him in 1989, it was business, so I didn't know his personal situation.
I THINK it is Type II as I recall the onset was after he was an adult.
The doctor he wrote the book with is who helped design his treatment plan.
Going on the book, it sounds like it worked.
UB
Folks,
I've met Ray and done business with his KAI company.
He is freakin' brilliant...and then some. That's not to say his "utopian future" is any more likely than "Jetson flying cars", but he's certainly NOT a goofball or charlatan.
I'm currently reading "Fantastic Voyage", his book about life extension. Having a background in medicine, I can say that the things he and the doctor co-author cite are both plausible and in agreement with current research for the most part.
Ray is a diabetic who no longer requires insulin injections; he manages his illness through diet and exercise. This quest to fight his illness led to the book. So from his own experience, the quality if not the length of his life has improved through application of some of the ideas in the book.
SOO, I'm not going to dismiss the new book until I've read it...he might be right!:o)
Greetings, Earth creatures!
I smork with glee that our plan to enslave your puny race is proceeding so well.
As soon as enough of you have inserted the mind control devices into your ugly listening orifices, we will transmit the Signal and strike.
Agent Steve has done a masterful job of introducing the Pod units and he shall be made Overlord of Earth when you are defeated!
Plus, all the filthy lucre gained will be used to get the Supreme Commander a new ride that will attract nubile female units.
All hail Agent Steve!
>>name one
Well, off hand, I'd say that if we find left-handed or otherwise obviously extra-terresterial life evidence on Mars, it would pretty much crap out the whole "created in His image" thing.
I've always been amused and sometimes appalled at the arrogance of those who think we're the only deal in the Universe.
That doesn't even make sense when you consider that on the scale of the KNOWN Universe, we're more insignificant than the booger of a booger's booger. Somewhat crude, but the point is that if there is a God (there probably is, but he/she/it is imcomprehensible to us) why waste all those resources and ONLY populate the flyspeck known as Earth?
Even if we're someone's high school science experiment, wouldn't there be other Petri dishes in the culture cabinet?
And that will definitely goof up the brains of those folks who think Man is the only deal there is.
So, there's one!
Acronymn of the day C.O.E.S.
Which is Coefficient Of Expansion Syndrome.
I started building Novell servers in 1982 with DCB (Disk Coprocessor Boards) then "real" SCSI boards and drives. I handled literally thousands of drives from a 10MB (yes, 10 megabytes) Shugart box that Radio Shack sold for a mere $5K to the multi-terabyte racks of Seagate UltraSCSI drives I play with at work.
What I've found is that most any drive will work for years and years if setup properly.
In the "olden days", that meant running Novell's Compsurf for 3-4 days on your drives before loading the OS. Of course, you had to pull the bad block table taped to the drive off and manually pre-enter those before running. That was always fun.
The deal with COES comes an engineering meeting with IBM hard drive folks in 1984. The presentation stated that every physical mechanism has a COE. Simply, as the drive heats up, the media expands and the drive geometry is altered. The drive logic deals with this pretty well and most people have zero awareness that the drive may have just had to re-read 40-50 sectors to load that Word file. COES occurs when OS, data, porn,etc. are written to a "cold" drive. As the drive heats up in normal service, everything on the disk has literally moved a tad due to COE. This increases the error correction use and runs the drive harder than it needs to.
SO, for every new drive or system, the simple cure is to run the beast for a minimum of 1 hour in an environment that is extremely close to how it will "live" day-to-day. Then, FDISK, format, load, and go.
You reduce the overall lifetime seeks and reads, the drive runs cooler, your pimples clear up, you find a girlfriend who loves to give head, and world peace breaks out.
Easy, huh?
Apple Schmapple....I could care less.
I have an iPod Shuffle...the wife has a Mini. We like them but they haven't made us raving syncophants for the cult of Steve.
I want two (2) two stinkin' things that no one, including the fruit guys, have managed to produce.
1) A portable device for watching TV and/or movies in COLOR with reasonable fidelity. No, the Sony PSP ain't it.
2) An actual eBook. A device for reading books, magazines, and my own documents from work, etc. that is viewable on a plane or in the car and dirt simple to use.
No, I don't need 1 & 2 in one device...they're different needs and should probably be unique to each other.
If Apple or *GASP* Microsoft comes up with something like that, they have my money!:o)
And even sadder, most people don't decent enough hearing or a quiet enough environment to actually detect ANY difference between $$$$ Monster cable and Cat 3 phone cable.
I have some killer stuff...including a boat anchor Denon 7.1 AVR, but while I spent some change on the speakers themselves...THE PART THE SOUND COMES OUT OF...I installed inexpensive cabling indoors and out.
And gee, no one has ever complained about the lack of Monster in the walls.
Actually, I did once purchase a Monster Cable for my bass guitar. It died after less than a dozen gigs. The "cheap" Fender cord I got with the bass still works and sounds great. DOH!
Couldn't resist...I use that line at my home game.
UttBuggly here...same name on PokerStars, Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt.
NL Hold'em or Pot Limit Omaha 8/b....anytime....with anyone.
The BPO is impressive and I don't have the cred yet, but I did just miss the WSOP Main Event by 2 places at Harrah's last month ($200 satellite) playing against some folks who were on WPT last year along with some strong amateurs.
Love the game, will have the fame.....
Geeks ARE the best poker players!
Well, I had my iPod Shuffle melt down last week, so I used Apple's on-lin repair order system. Got a new iPod THE NEXT DAY and sent the dead one back. Totally impressed.
Anyway, they sent me a Customer Satisfaction Survey request and at the end, there's space for a 2000 character comment.
I suggested they go with AMD. Tiger on a dual Opteron....yummmm! (Homer Simpson voice)
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Starship Troopers was not, in fact, excellent in any regard except as an example of Hollywood ripping off and dumbing down a classic work of science fiction.
As for "I, Robot"? The entire cast and crew have been targeted for destruction by my elite squad of ninjas.
This just in...
Noted scientist and author Isaac Asimov is STILL dead and spinning in his grave following the release of the film "I, Robot".
This movie surpassed bad. Not in acting, cinematography, music, etc., but they DIDN'T USE THE SOURCE MATERIAL for the most part.
Harlan Ellison wrote a killer screenplay that Asimov was apparently very happy with. I believe it was published in the Isaac Asimov magazine along with the reaction of Hollywood at the time.
Since Susan Calvin didn't get naked and have lesbian sex with a female robot (which then exploded), they gave it a pass....until Asimov died and the stellar acting talents of ex-rapper were needed.
Film at 11.........
I bought a pretty good home theater setup off the shelf. Didn't have to...built my first computer in the 70's! Had a Sinclair, several Trash-80s, various Novell and UNIX-flavored boxes around all the time. Have a couple of frankenstein beasts still running, but most of the hardware in the house is "store bought". Also worked as an engineer for a big A/V contractor for 3 years, so I'm very comfortable with the toys. My family is the real issue of DIY versus OTS. I had to have ease-of-use and reliability at the top of the list. So, I spent major bucks and had 3 contractors to do the job. The results are awesome. The funniest part was that the way cool ELD remote for the Denon AVR-3805 I use as the primary in the living room was rejected by everyone but me. I loved the thing and had it tweaked and programmed perfectly (I thought). After 2 weeks of grief, I bought the cheapest part of the whole system...a Harmony SST-656 remote. 30 minutes after I put the batteries in, the whole system was it's sex slave and I got to sleep in the house again. I think I'd probably be dead if I had tried the DIY route. When I took all the PCs and laptops wireless, the natives were way restless. Making them deal with PC hardware to watch "Finding Nemo" was fraught with peril.:O)
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Well, sportsfan, your Dr. Barach is an ass. H. Pylori is not easy to diagnose...requires an endoscopic procedure. It's not easy to treat. The regimen is TWO antibiotics and an acid blocker like Nexium or Prevacid for 30 days. The rate of recurrence is 5-20%. I was in that group and did the "triple threat" treatment all over again. After 5 years being symptom free, I just had my 5th EGD (dope and scope) and was informed that the years of damage by H. Pylori have given me Barrett's Esophagus, a tissue change that can lead to cancer. This didn't happen overnight...it took over 20 years. If some of the doctors I saw during that time had been looking for H. Pylori, I might have avoided this.
Jaysyn, The specifics are in the 1st part of the book. When I met him in 1989, it was business, so I didn't know his personal situation. I THINK it is Type II as I recall the onset was after he was an adult. The doctor he wrote the book with is who helped design his treatment plan. Going on the book, it sounds like it worked. UB
Folks, I've met Ray and done business with his KAI company. He is freakin' brilliant...and then some. That's not to say his "utopian future" is any more likely than "Jetson flying cars", but he's certainly NOT a goofball or charlatan. I'm currently reading "Fantastic Voyage", his book about life extension. Having a background in medicine, I can say that the things he and the doctor co-author cite are both plausible and in agreement with current research for the most part. Ray is a diabetic who no longer requires insulin injections; he manages his illness through diet and exercise. This quest to fight his illness led to the book. So from his own experience, the quality if not the length of his life has improved through application of some of the ideas in the book. SOO, I'm not going to dismiss the new book until I've read it...he might be right! :o)
Greetings, Earth creatures! I smork with glee that our plan to enslave your puny race is proceeding so well. As soon as enough of you have inserted the mind control devices into your ugly listening orifices, we will transmit the Signal and strike. Agent Steve has done a masterful job of introducing the Pod units and he shall be made Overlord of Earth when you are defeated! Plus, all the filthy lucre gained will be used to get the Supreme Commander a new ride that will attract nubile female units. All hail Agent Steve!
" It comes and goes, sometimes it's bigger than usual. "
I keep telling my wife that but she still made me get a Viagra prescription!
Actually, the detected spin is not that of the Earth's core, but the body of Isaac Asimov after the release of "I, Robot".
>>name one Well, off hand, I'd say that if we find left-handed or otherwise obviously extra-terresterial life evidence on Mars, it would pretty much crap out the whole "created in His image" thing. I've always been amused and sometimes appalled at the arrogance of those who think we're the only deal in the Universe. That doesn't even make sense when you consider that on the scale of the KNOWN Universe, we're more insignificant than the booger of a booger's booger. Somewhat crude, but the point is that if there is a God (there probably is, but he/she/it is imcomprehensible to us) why waste all those resources and ONLY populate the flyspeck known as Earth? Even if we're someone's high school science experiment, wouldn't there be other Petri dishes in the culture cabinet? And that will definitely goof up the brains of those folks who think Man is the only deal there is. So, there's one!
Acronymn of the day C.O.E.S. Which is Coefficient Of Expansion Syndrome. I started building Novell servers in 1982 with DCB (Disk Coprocessor Boards) then "real" SCSI boards and drives. I handled literally thousands of drives from a 10MB (yes, 10 megabytes) Shugart box that Radio Shack sold for a mere $5K to the multi-terabyte racks of Seagate UltraSCSI drives I play with at work. What I've found is that most any drive will work for years and years if setup properly. In the "olden days", that meant running Novell's Compsurf for 3-4 days on your drives before loading the OS. Of course, you had to pull the bad block table taped to the drive off and manually pre-enter those before running. That was always fun. The deal with COES comes an engineering meeting with IBM hard drive folks in 1984. The presentation stated that every physical mechanism has a COE. Simply, as the drive heats up, the media expands and the drive geometry is altered. The drive logic deals with this pretty well and most people have zero awareness that the drive may have just had to re-read 40-50 sectors to load that Word file. COES occurs when OS, data, porn,etc. are written to a "cold" drive. As the drive heats up in normal service, everything on the disk has literally moved a tad due to COE. This increases the error correction use and runs the drive harder than it needs to. SO, for every new drive or system, the simple cure is to run the beast for a minimum of 1 hour in an environment that is extremely close to how it will "live" day-to-day. Then, FDISK, format, load, and go. You reduce the overall lifetime seeks and reads, the drive runs cooler, your pimples clear up, you find a girlfriend who loves to give head, and world peace breaks out. Easy, huh?
Apple Schmapple....I could care less. I have an iPod Shuffle...the wife has a Mini. We like them but they haven't made us raving syncophants for the cult of Steve. I want two (2) two stinkin' things that no one, including the fruit guys, have managed to produce. 1) A portable device for watching TV and/or movies in COLOR with reasonable fidelity. No, the Sony PSP ain't it. 2) An actual eBook. A device for reading books, magazines, and my own documents from work, etc. that is viewable on a plane or in the car and dirt simple to use. No, I don't need 1 & 2 in one device...they're different needs and should probably be unique to each other. If Apple or *GASP* Microsoft comes up with something like that, they have my money! :o)
And even sadder, most people don't decent enough hearing or a quiet enough environment to actually detect ANY difference between $$$$ Monster cable and Cat 3 phone cable. I have some killer stuff...including a boat anchor Denon 7.1 AVR, but while I spent some change on the speakers themselves...THE PART THE SOUND COMES OUT OF...I installed inexpensive cabling indoors and out. And gee, no one has ever complained about the lack of Monster in the walls. Actually, I did once purchase a Monster Cable for my bass guitar. It died after less than a dozen gigs. The "cheap" Fender cord I got with the bass still works and sounds great. DOH!
Couldn't resist...I use that line at my home game. UttBuggly here...same name on PokerStars, Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt. NL Hold'em or Pot Limit Omaha 8/b....anytime....with anyone. The BPO is impressive and I don't have the cred yet, but I did just miss the WSOP Main Event by 2 places at Harrah's last month ($200 satellite) playing against some folks who were on WPT last year along with some strong amateurs. Love the game, will have the fame..... Geeks ARE the best poker players!
...or a world class piece that includes a blowjob!
Well, I had my iPod Shuffle melt down last week, so I used Apple's on-lin repair order system. Got a new iPod THE NEXT DAY and sent the dead one back. Totally impressed. Anyway, they sent me a Customer Satisfaction Survey request and at the end, there's space for a 2000 character comment. I suggested they go with AMD. Tiger on a dual Opteron....yummmm! (Homer Simpson voice) I'd buy that for a dollar!
Starship Troopers was not, in fact, excellent in any regard except as an example of Hollywood ripping off and dumbing down a classic work of science fiction. As for "I, Robot"? The entire cast and crew have been targeted for destruction by my elite squad of ninjas.
This just in... Noted scientist and author Isaac Asimov is STILL dead and spinning in his grave following the release of the film "I, Robot". This movie surpassed bad. Not in acting, cinematography, music, etc., but they DIDN'T USE THE SOURCE MATERIAL for the most part. Harlan Ellison wrote a killer screenplay that Asimov was apparently very happy with. I believe it was published in the Isaac Asimov magazine along with the reaction of Hollywood at the time. Since Susan Calvin didn't get naked and have lesbian sex with a female robot (which then exploded), they gave it a pass....until Asimov died and the stellar acting talents of ex-rapper were needed. Film at 11.........
I bought a pretty good home theater setup off the shelf. Didn't have to...built my first computer in the 70's! Had a Sinclair, several Trash-80s, various Novell and UNIX-flavored boxes around all the time. Have a couple of frankenstein beasts still running, but most of the hardware in the house is "store bought". Also worked as an engineer for a big A/V contractor for 3 years, so I'm very comfortable with the toys. My family is the real issue of DIY versus OTS. I had to have ease-of-use and reliability at the top of the list. So, I spent major bucks and had 3 contractors to do the job. The results are awesome. The funniest part was that the way cool ELD remote for the Denon AVR-3805 I use as the primary in the living room was rejected by everyone but me. I loved the thing and had it tweaked and programmed perfectly (I thought). After 2 weeks of grief, I bought the cheapest part of the whole system...a Harmony SST-656 remote. 30 minutes after I put the batteries in, the whole system was it's sex slave and I got to sleep in the house again. I think I'd probably be dead if I had tried the DIY route. When I took all the PCs and laptops wireless, the natives were way restless. Making them deal with PC hardware to watch "Finding Nemo" was fraught with peril. :O)