Erector Pili, toenails, wisdom teeth, sinuses and the vomeronasal organ, the subclavius, palmaris, pyramidalis, plantaris, extrinsic ear muscles, male nipples, I could go on and on.
There are dozens of body parts that perform absolutely no function except cause trouble. Some of them such as the palmaris, pyramidalis, plantaris, are already vanishing from humans. Others, such as wisdom teeth are removed at great suffering and expense. Leave them in at your peril! Imagine all the money, time and human suffering that would be saved if toenails did not exist. I doubt any educated people think the human body is a well-tuned machine. It is full of poor design, unnecessary parts, and problem-prone hacks. There is a lot of elegance and beauty but a lot of duct-tape level workarounds.
Trees have been evolving in a dance with mankind for thousands of years. Trees with useful wood, delicious fruit, or pleasing flowers are actively cultivated.
It makes it into a *cheap* pager that you can use as a cell phone whenever you decide the situation is worth it. I do the same thing, paying about $6.66 a month. I'll pick up if it is work or some kind of in-transit snag. If I'm just at work or home I almost never pick up.
It is pretty hard to do this. How many terrorists have been accurately identified by any such system? Very very close to or equal to zero. That makes your sensitivity and specificity numbers just about meaningless. For many systems EVERY positive is false, EVERY negative is true.
Those are tragic reasons that help explain the high suicide rate in eastern europe. It is strange that Asia has such a suicide-eager image when the reality is so different.
I don't think many people think their driving is affected. If they did they would not drive while texting/talking/drunk. You probably are impaired and don't realize it. Just like everyone else.
I have driven after having one or two drinks. I think I am a better driver in this state, even though studies show I am not likely to be. I am not technically impaired if I get pulled over, but I bet I am a worse driver than usual even though it seems to me that I am paying extra attention.
That is the entire point of the debate. Hardly anyone says "Wow I really shouldn't drive while talking. I am going to get in a wreck! Oh well here goes anyway."
Somafm has a budget of ~$30k/month. They will be fine, paying quite a bit less than they do now. It is the truly small broadcasters that will die, not broadcasters like somafm with its many thousands of listeners at any time.
Explicit doesn't mean simple or one-to-one or anything like that. It means fully revealed or expressed. Pressing the power button absolutely does not fully reveal or express any location logging. I was explicitly calling you an idiot up there. If I wanted to imply that you are an idiot I could have said "Were you dropped down a chimney on your head?"
Pressing the power button does one thing explicitly. It turns on the phone. Doesn't matter how it happens. It could fire up a bank of coal-fired mutton roasters for all anyone cares. It does many things implicitly, including agreeing to charges, location services, etc.
APAP is used in opioid painkillers for one good reason - it doesn't promote bleeding like ASA. Since these combo drugs are often used post-operative it makes sense to have a potentiator that does not increase bleeding. APAP is not an anti inflammatory so it never made much sense to me. It just seemed to be a liver toxin added to deter abuse. I would suggest Ibuprofen or another NSAID for post-op opioid potentiation.
Most modern libraries spend a fortune on DVDs and have an extensive collection of DVD and VHS tapes. I check out movies from the library that aren't available on netflix or torrents.
It is trivial for a smart kid to find out their parent's SSN. Go through Daddy's papers and you'll find it pretty darn quick. Right now there is a doctor bill I need to deal with on my desk, with my SSN right there on top. Thank goodness I don't have any kids.
Even a paranoid uptight parent can't keep everything with their SSN on it out of view all the time. Heck, a lot of phone calls require you to say your SSN out loud. I still have a doctor that uses SSN for patient number, and it is viewable through the address window if you shake the envelope a bit.
In about 4 linear feet of plane they put 4 first class seats, 2 on each side of the aisle. In about the same 4 linear feet they put 12 coach seats, 2 rows of 3 on each side. If first class is 3x the price of coach then there is no subsidy.
Of course there is the issue of weight, but i am certain that the myriad first class amenities more than make up the difference.
The real world seems to agree with my napkin math. Airlines like Southwest have the lowest prices and don't even offer first class.
Then there are the "fuck you" moments just to make sure the commoners know their place: Empty first class lines refusing to serve coach passengers, the idiotic policy of clogging the front of the plane first when loading back row first makes better sense, forcing coach passengers to use the rear restrooms no matter what so first class doesn't have to look at them, etc.
Thanks for the lie that they pay my way, but I will continue to be resentful of first class the few times a year I am unfortunate enough to be forced to fly.
You think he means "raises an interesting question" because the historically accepted meaning of "begs the question" is the use of an unproven assertion?
OK now I see the problem! Of course the placebo doesn't do anything, it is clinically inert. The placebo effect is caused by the patient believing they took a medicine. What a perfect example of talking past each other!
Trouble is, I'm sure there's some bit of our tax money being used to make this failnet, whether or not we as citizens use it.
Oh good god. There are steaming piles of tax money in the telcos and cablecos, not to mention their monopolies. Tough titties if they can't deal with a little competition.
If you want to be an idiot at a city council meeting, maybe you should bitch about all the wasted billions we've paid for telecom infrastructure that is now falling apart?
I'm going to fire up one last roll of Kodachrome if I can find some, but don't dawdle. Last I checked there was a single lab in the US processing K-14 and they will wind it down once it starts losing money.
Not only that, but they have been discontinuing Kodachrome for years now. This was the last remaining speed they were making, ISO 64. They stopped making other speeds years ago.
What a sociopathic attitude. There are countless things many of us don't do and don't approve of and would prefer not to have to pay for. But, we all live in a society.
I wish I didn't have to pay for idiots who talk on cellphones while driving, or for stupid people to have kids. I wish I didn't have to pay for health freaks living to 100 using up all that money on health care. If they had any sense and smoked, drank, and ate cheeseburgers they would die at 65 and save us 10 million dollars.
Do you want to be unapproved for health care or reproduction privileges because your DNA is more costly to maintain than some arbitrary level society sets? Do you want to live in a society where doctors run through extensive checklists, wasting precious time, to see if you did anything unapproved to disqualify you from receiving treatment for your heart attack, car crash, or bullet hole?
Plus, you are wrong. People who die in auto accidents stop being a drain. Those idiots that survive them with their seat belts cost big bucks to patch up and put back into active duty, only to tie up precious resources the next time something happens.
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Erector Pili, toenails, wisdom teeth, sinuses and the vomeronasal organ, the subclavius, palmaris, pyramidalis, plantaris, extrinsic ear muscles, male nipples, I could go on and on.
There are dozens of body parts that perform absolutely no function except cause trouble. Some of them such as the palmaris, pyramidalis, plantaris, are already vanishing from humans. Others, such as wisdom teeth are removed at great suffering and expense. Leave them in at your peril! Imagine all the money, time and human suffering that would be saved if toenails did not exist. I doubt any educated people think the human body is a well-tuned machine. It is full of poor design, unnecessary parts, and problem-prone hacks. There is a lot of elegance and beauty but a lot of duct-tape level workarounds.
Trees have been evolving in a dance with mankind for thousands of years. Trees with useful wood, delicious fruit, or pleasing flowers are actively cultivated.
It makes it into a *cheap* pager that you can use as a cell phone whenever you decide the situation is worth it. I do the same thing, paying about $6.66 a month. I'll pick up if it is work or some kind of in-transit snag. If I'm just at work or home I almost never pick up.
That's an excess GW. As in above what the 82m households use.
It is pretty hard to do this. How many terrorists have been accurately identified by any such system? Very very close to or equal to zero. That makes your sensitivity and specificity numbers just about meaningless. For many systems EVERY positive is false, EVERY negative is true.
Thank you for the correction. I allowed Borat to cloud my geography.
Those are tragic reasons that help explain the high suicide rate in eastern europe. It is strange that Asia has such a suicide-eager image when the reality is so different.
I had the same misconception but it is easily dispersed.
According to this the top 7 are not Asian. China is way down there, below France, Poland, Switzerland, Uruguay.
Country, Male Suicide per 100k, Female suicide per 100k, total pop suicide per 100k, year
Lithuania 68.1 12.9 38.6 2005
Belarus 63.3 10.3 35.1 2003
Russia 58.1 9.8 32.2 2005
Slovenia 42.1 11.1 26.3 2006
Hungary 42.3 11.2 26.0 2005
Kazakhstan 45.0 8.1 25.9 2005
Latvia 42.0 9.6 24.5 2005
Japan 34.8 13.2 23.7 2006
I assumed the suicide rate would be much higher in Asia, but I guess it is just reported more or happens in more high-profile cases or something.
I don't think many people think their driving is affected. If they did they would not drive while texting/talking/drunk. You probably are impaired and don't realize it. Just like everyone else.
I have driven after having one or two drinks. I think I am a better driver in this state, even though studies show I am not likely to be. I am not technically impaired if I get pulled over, but I bet I am a worse driver than usual even though it seems to me that I am paying extra attention.
That is the entire point of the debate. Hardly anyone says "Wow I really shouldn't drive while talking. I am going to get in a wreck! Oh well here goes anyway."
Somafm has a budget of ~$30k/month. They will be fine, paying quite a bit less than they do now. It is the truly small broadcasters that will die, not broadcasters like somafm with its many thousands of listeners at any time.
Why are you such an idiot?
Explicit doesn't mean simple or one-to-one or anything like that. It means fully revealed or expressed. Pressing the power button absolutely does not fully reveal or express any location logging. I was explicitly calling you an idiot up there. If I wanted to imply that you are an idiot I could have said "Were you dropped down a chimney on your head?"
Pressing the power button does one thing explicitly. It turns on the phone. Doesn't matter how it happens. It could fire up a bank of coal-fired mutton roasters for all anyone cares. It does many things implicitly, including agreeing to charges, location services, etc.
I can't believe bloodninja was still available well into the 7 digit IDs. Well played, sir!
APAP is used in opioid painkillers for one good reason - it doesn't promote bleeding like ASA. Since these combo drugs are often used post-operative it makes sense to have a potentiator that does not increase bleeding. APAP is not an anti inflammatory so it never made much sense to me. It just seemed to be a liver toxin added to deter abuse. I would suggest Ibuprofen or another NSAID for post-op opioid potentiation.
How do you look for it? My method isn't super reliable.
Malware gets to click on things too.
Most modern libraries spend a fortune on DVDs and have an extensive collection of DVD and VHS tapes. I check out movies from the library that aren't available on netflix or torrents.
It is trivial for a smart kid to find out their parent's SSN. Go through Daddy's papers and you'll find it pretty darn quick. Right now there is a doctor bill I need to deal with on my desk, with my SSN right there on top. Thank goodness I don't have any kids.
Even a paranoid uptight parent can't keep everything with their SSN on it out of view all the time. Heck, a lot of phone calls require you to say your SSN out loud. I still have a doctor that uses SSN for patient number, and it is viewable through the address window if you shake the envelope a bit.
I don't buy it.
In about 4 linear feet of plane they put 4 first class seats, 2 on each side of the aisle. In about the same 4 linear feet they put 12 coach seats, 2 rows of 3 on each side. If first class is 3x the price of coach then there is no subsidy.
Of course there is the issue of weight, but i am certain that the myriad first class amenities more than make up the difference.
The real world seems to agree with my napkin math. Airlines like Southwest have the lowest prices and don't even offer first class.
Then there are the "fuck you" moments just to make sure the commoners know their place: Empty first class lines refusing to serve coach passengers, the idiotic policy of clogging the front of the plane first when loading back row first makes better sense, forcing coach passengers to use the rear restrooms no matter what so first class doesn't have to look at them, etc.
Thanks for the lie that they pay my way, but I will continue to be resentful of first class the few times a year I am unfortunate enough to be forced to fly.
You think he means "raises an interesting question" because the historically accepted meaning of "begs the question" is the use of an unproven assertion?
That, is begging the question.
OK now I see the problem! Of course the placebo doesn't do anything, it is clinically inert. The placebo effect is caused by the patient believing they took a medicine. What a perfect example of talking past each other!
What a nightmare!
It is funny to imagine a catch-22: Some conflicting set of actions that all result in locally optimized but overall suboptimal outcome.
Oh good god. There are steaming piles of tax money in the telcos and cablecos, not to mention their monopolies. Tough titties if they can't deal with a little competition.
If you want to be an idiot at a city council meeting, maybe you should bitch about all the wasted billions we've paid for telecom infrastructure that is now falling apart?
I'm going to fire up one last roll of Kodachrome if I can find some, but don't dawdle. Last I checked there was a single lab in the US processing K-14 and they will wind it down once it starts losing money.
Not only that, but they have been discontinuing Kodachrome for years now. This was the last remaining speed they were making, ISO 64. They stopped making other speeds years ago.
What a sociopathic attitude. There are countless things many of us don't do and don't approve of and would prefer not to have to pay for. But, we all live in a society.
I wish I didn't have to pay for idiots who talk on cellphones while driving, or for stupid people to have kids. I wish I didn't have to pay for health freaks living to 100 using up all that money on health care. If they had any sense and smoked, drank, and ate cheeseburgers they would die at 65 and save us 10 million dollars.
Do you want to be unapproved for health care or reproduction privileges because your DNA is more costly to maintain than some arbitrary level society sets? Do you want to live in a society where doctors run through extensive checklists, wasting precious time, to see if you did anything unapproved to disqualify you from receiving treatment for your heart attack, car crash, or bullet hole?
Plus, you are wrong. People who die in auto accidents stop being a drain. Those idiots that survive them with their seat belts cost big bucks to patch up and put back into active duty, only to tie up precious resources the next time something happens.