We're now not supposed to eat meat of any kind, or sugar, or alcohol, avoid carbs, avoid fat.. would someone like to point out some peer-reviewed University studies that show that drinking water will actually kill you? Then we can all be totally healthy and just kill ourselves in 3 days from dehydration, rather than having to wait out the several months it takes to die of starvation.
Okay, so you're going to freak out about *this*: Breathing causes death. Proof? 100% of all dead people were habitual breathers.
I was actually one of the admins for a Cray-2 (and other systems) at NASA LaRC from 1988-1992. It was pretty cool (no pun intended). The chassis was Plexiglas (or something else clear) and you could see the 3D circuit boards immersed in the Fluorinert - which was wicked expensive back then. I always wanted to put some plastic fish inside the system... The system was moved to the Virginia Air and Space Center (VASC) for a while after being decommissioned sometime later.
That why (1) the divorce rate is so high and (2) people are in debt.
Your notetaking application is just a tool, not a lifelong commitment, or something super-expensive to replace.
Granted. I was just making a general observation to the statement: "Sometimes we just like to use something else after doing the same thing for 10 years." as this seems to be a common thing in our modern, disposable U.S. society.
It's usually not the manufacturing that is so expensive but the research and testing needing to get the drug on the market. In this case neither company needs to do any research or additional testing with the FDA since the drug is well known and has been on the market for 60 years. That doesn't apply with a brand new drug which may have to go through years of testing even if the first version is perfect with no side effects.
Its estimate includes another $1.2 billion in foregone returns investors would have otherwise seen while the drug was under development.
Basically, the money investors *could* have earned by simply putting the other money used for development into the market over the development period. So not actual cost, but lost earnings.
A large oil tank farm is an example of infrastructure that can be threatened by a number of disasters, from tornados to terrorism. But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
That's just silly. Nuclear fracking would be counter-productive.
You're foggy on the whole fraud thing, aren't you? Fraudulent medical billing and the provision of services to people who aren't supposed to get them (because they're posing as someone else, or getting someone else's opiate prescription, etc) is rampant. In the billions of dollars. Fake IDs, stolen identities... these are front and center in massive, ongoing, and routine fraud. Very popular in the illegal immigrant set, who also receive hundreds of millions in fraudulently claimed incomes tax refunds and credits.
That you're not clear on this is pretty frightening. Please don't do anything tricky or risky like voting.
Your obvious Fox News inspired mindset not withstanding, yes some people attempt to obtain health care services fraudulently, but the bulk of Health Care Fraud comes from unscrupulous *providers* not patients:
The Challenge of Health Care Fraud, "The majority of health care fraud is committed by a very small minority of dishonest health care providers."
Health care fraud, Types: Billing for services not rendered, Upcoding of services, Upcoding of items, Duplicate claims, Unbundling, Excessive services, Unnecessary services, Kickbacks
And I would add, quoting you: "That you're not clear on this is pretty frightening. Please don't do anything tricky or risky like voting."
Solar thermal is a solution to the wrong problem. Electricity demand, and thus prices, are highest in the daytime, and lowest late at night. So by shifting production from day to night, they are turning gold into lead.
From TFA:
Smith expects that NV Energy, the Las Vegas–based utility contracted to buy Crescent Dunes’ output, will want it mostly during the utility’s unusually late demand peak, which the Vegas Strip’s nightlife routinely stretches toward midnight.
TFA and TFS also say, "Engineered from the ground up to store some of its solar energy," and presumably "some" means "not all" with the not all part going to daytime demand.
I took apart 2-3 clocks growing up. Where's my medal?
When I was in fifth grade, I took apart a carburetor *and* put it pack together! Where's my medal?
Okay... There were a few really, small parts left over after putting it back together, but that was also a great lesson to pay attention when taking something apart and be organized when laying things out.
It's more insulting than that. For example, I have ~30 years experience as a systems programmer and administrator on just about every Unix system known and multiple scripting / compiled programming languages. For management to think I could "train someone up" in a month is a little insulting.
For a similar actual example, I once had a new manager, w/o a heavy tech background, who wanted me to explain a LOT of stuff to him adding the phrase, "don't worry, I'm a quick learner". And I'm thinking, so you're going to pick up my BSCS and (at that time) 20 years of experience during our lunch meeting?
An opposite example was a manager, actually with a tech background, telling me that he didn't need *all* the details because, "that's why I have you." He just wanted information he needed to make higher-level decisions and wanted me to translate geek to manager.
Not every system is Linux and I would imagine that the larger bank systems definitely are not. They're probably something like Solaris or HP-UX. The commands on those systems generally only support more legacy Unix options, not newer GNU/Linux options. (Of course, YMMV.)
The seeds are being returned to Syria, who sent them to the Global Seed Vault as a precaution.
From TFA:
The ICARDA Aleppo center had sent nearly 80% of the seeds and samples to the Global Seed Vault as a backup by 2012, with its last deposit being in 2014.
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We're now not supposed to eat meat of any kind, or sugar, or alcohol, avoid carbs, avoid fat.. would someone like to point out some peer-reviewed University studies that show that drinking water will actually kill you? Then we can all be totally healthy and just kill ourselves in 3 days from dehydration, rather than having to wait out the several months it takes to die of starvation.
Okay, so you're going to freak out about *this*: Breathing causes death. Proof? 100% of all dead people were habitual breathers.
In essence, an object sitting in a 'quiet' region of space can be held there if it is surrounded by very high-intensity sound waves.
In Space, no one can hear you tractor beam.
Yeah and what constitutes "dead"?
It's a parrot that even Dr. McCoy can't revive.
What the heck was he doing with a lunar rover prototype in Alabama?
1. up on blocks.
2. Huntsville.
Obligatory: "You might be a space redneck if ..."
College dropouts championing schools.
Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson, etc.
Dropouts from (if I recall correctly) fairly well-to-do families...
Only in a Brave New World would children be conditioned so early on in their life.
Get them hooked on things (like Facebook) while they're young and still gestating. That's the future.
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
- Veronica, "Better Off Ted"
...they want their cooling back: Cray-2
I was actually one of the admins for a Cray-2 (and other systems) at NASA LaRC from 1988-1992. It was pretty cool (no pun intended). The chassis was Plexiglas (or something else clear) and you could see the 3D circuit boards immersed in the Fluorinert - which was wicked expensive back then. I always wanted to put some plastic fish inside the system... The system was moved to the Virginia Air and Space Center (VASC) for a while after being decommissioned sometime later.
That why (1) the divorce rate is so high and (2) people are in debt.
Your notetaking application is just a tool, not a lifelong commitment, or something super-expensive to replace.
Granted. I was just making a general observation to the statement: "Sometimes we just like to use something else after doing the same thing for 10 years." as this seems to be a common thing in our modern, disposable U.S. society.
Sometimes we just like to use something else after doing the same thing for 10 years. There is no harm in asking to see if there is an alternative.
That why (1) the divorce rate is so high and (2) people are in debt. As long as something still works, find new ways to enjoy what you have.
To be fair, the 42 year delay was so that they could convince the people of Tennessee that electricity wasn't the work of the devil.
"I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill, 'I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month.'" - Steven Wright.
It's usually not the manufacturing that is so expensive but the research and testing needing to get the drug on the market. In this case neither company needs to do any research or additional testing with the FDA since the drug is well known and has been on the market for 60 years. That doesn't apply with a brand new drug which may have to go through years of testing even if the first version is perfect with no side effects.
According to a study done by Tufts University, Cost to Develop and Win Marketing Approval for a New Drug Is $2.6 Billion that "cost" includes (quoting these Washington Post and New York Times write-ups:
Its estimate includes another $1.2 billion in foregone returns investors would have otherwise seen while the drug was under development.
Basically, the money investors *could* have earned by simply putting the other money used for development into the market over the development period. So not actual cost, but lost earnings.
A large oil tank farm is an example of infrastructure that can be threatened by a number of disasters, from tornados to terrorism. But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
That's just silly. Nuclear fracking would be counter-productive.
And in 20 years, everyone will wonder why nobody saw the end coming.
That is because they had their heads stuck up their ass.
Ostriches with their heads stuck in fracking well holes ...
Where are the photos of this new blackest materiel yet?!
They're being held in evidence. Apparently the police shot the material ...
You're foggy on the whole fraud thing, aren't you? Fraudulent medical billing and the provision of services to people who aren't supposed to get them (because they're posing as someone else, or getting someone else's opiate prescription, etc) is rampant. In the billions of dollars. Fake IDs, stolen identities ... these are front and center in massive, ongoing, and routine fraud. Very popular in the illegal immigrant set, who also receive hundreds of millions in fraudulently claimed incomes tax refunds and credits.
That you're not clear on this is pretty frightening. Please don't do anything tricky or risky like voting.
Your obvious Fox News inspired mindset not withstanding, yes some people attempt to obtain health care services fraudulently, but the bulk of Health Care Fraud comes from unscrupulous *providers* not patients:
And I would add, quoting you: "That you're not clear on this is pretty frightening. Please don't do anything tricky or risky like voting."
Solar thermal is a solution to the wrong problem. Electricity demand, and thus prices, are highest in the daytime, and lowest late at night. So by shifting production from day to night, they are turning gold into lead.
From TFA:
Smith expects that NV Energy, the Las Vegas–based utility contracted to buy Crescent Dunes’ output, will want it mostly during the utility’s unusually late demand peak, which the Vegas Strip’s nightlife routinely stretches toward midnight.
TFA and TFS also say, "Engineered from the ground up to store some of its solar energy," and presumably "some" means "not all" with the not all part going to daytime demand.
yes but you weren't using a computer to do it ;)
I do, but my monitor now has little holes all over it...
You may want to reread up on the Heat Death of the Universe. ...
For those that don't know, you can read about that here Heat Death of the Universe and here Future of an Expanding Universe
5 no POP under over in down up (or any of the 8 possible directions)
However, Pop-Tarts ads still okay.
I took apart 2-3 clocks growing up. Where's my medal?
When I was in fifth grade, I took apart a carburetor *and* put it pack together! Where's my medal?
Okay... There were a few really, small parts left over after putting it back together, but that was also a great lesson to pay attention when taking something apart and be organized when laying things out.
It's more insulting than that. For example, I have ~30 years experience as a systems programmer and administrator on just about every Unix system known and multiple scripting / compiled programming languages. For management to think I could "train someone up" in a month is a little insulting.
For a similar actual example, I once had a new manager, w/o a heavy tech background, who wanted me to explain a LOT of stuff to him adding the phrase, "don't worry, I'm a quick learner". And I'm thinking, so you're going to pick up my BSCS and (at that time) 20 years of experience during our lunch meeting?
An opposite example was a manager, actually with a tech background, telling me that he didn't need *all* the details because, "that's why I have you." He just wanted information he needed to make higher-level decisions and wanted me to translate geek to manager.
Shouldn't rm -r --no-preserve-root still work?
Not every system is Linux and I would imagine that the larger bank systems definitely are not. They're probably something like Solaris or HP-UX. The commands on those systems generally only support more legacy Unix options, not newer GNU/Linux options. (Of course, YMMV.)
Talk about solving First World problems - geesh.
Did anyone else think this was going to help them pick up chicks? ;-)
No. That's in the "rod logic" article.
The seeds are being returned to Syria, who sent them to the Global Seed Vault as a precaution. From TFA:
The ICARDA Aleppo center had sent nearly 80% of the seeds and samples to the Global Seed Vault as a backup by 2012, with its last deposit being in 2014.