With apologies to Matt Stone and Trey Parker (South Park)...
if marklar would marklar all the marklar from marklar on top of marklar with the marklar previuously referred to as marklar, would then marklar have to marklar all their marklar to marklar?
Anyone seen Superman Returns? Sir Richard Branson has a cameo as one of the shuttle pilots. I almost didn't recognize him as the shots were brief, but my suspicions were confirmed by the credits.
...wonder when single men will be required to produce ID if they walk past a public place where the children might be or where a terrorist attack would claim many lives
(emphasis mine)
I'm sure plenty of pedophiles and/or terrorists are neither single nor men.
just what makes that little old ant
think he can always find his way back?
where ever he goes,
that ant
can't
forget all the steps back!
except if he's got hiigh heels
or
no legs paaast his knees
if he got high on the apple pie
and stared at the bees in the sky
so whenever your funding's low
maybe spent it all on blow
just remember those ants...
whoops there goes another research grant!
whoops there goes another research grant!
Some tatoo inks contain ferrous oxide (iron). Anyone with a tatoo containing this ink cannot (ok, should not) get an MRI.
A similar restriction applies to metal fragments, including those from welding (which is why they ask about this), especially in the eye. If the tech asks you about welding and/or metal frags and you're not sure, they give you an X-Ray first. Don't really want to wrong about this one - ouch!
Perhaps the popularity of the SETI project is based on "hope". I'm not saying that figuring out global climate or solving dire medical problems are not worthy. Indeed, my wife died of a brain tumor and nothing would have made me happier had she survived. The SETI project, however, offers us the hope of discovering that we are not alone in this universe.
I don't think any of us can adequately imagine how such a discovery would affect life here on Earth (for good or bad). I know that any life detected would be too far away for actual communication, but simply knowing another civilization exists and the possibility of learning from or helping them - wow.
Of course, I'm waiting for a project that hits closer to home, YETI@home. Damn, those things are elusive.
...The New York Times is running an article about geoengineering in which many solutions to global warming include decreasing the amount of sunlight that the planet sees...
In a related item, the Bush administration is chastizing the Gray Lady for, yet again, publishing news about a possible new secret weapon against The War On Terror.
Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the country's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times - the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.
Google already tracks our searching and email, now they'll track our spending habits and how much we pay for various items. Paranoid? Maybe, but how long will it be until we find that Google is maintaining a database of this sort of thing?
Also like children, the AIBOs initially started babbling aimlessly until two or more settled on a sound to describe an object or aspect of their environment, gradually building a lexicon and grammatical rules through which to communicate.
Just great. Now I'll have to learn Spanish and AIBO...
The electron at the edge of the valence band said:
I stand upon the edge Condemned by fate's cruel hand To lie in a state of perpetual freeze With energy lacking to do a trapeze Across to freedom's higher land
There are many who have risen beyond Coulombic forces. They blisfully exist Unshelled. Their orbitals know no bond. With carefree abandon they diffuse and drift.
Will no photon shine a light ? Will no dopant lend a hand ? To conquer Fermi's improbable height To leap into the conduction band !
My mother had radial keritotomy (sp?) 15-20 years ago. My understanding of the procedure is that it is the equivalant of Lasik but using a blade to make the incisions instead of laser...
RK isn't really the same as LASIK, it's more like PRK (basically RK, but with a laser). In RK, slits are cut radially in specific places causing the cornea to reshape as it heals and changing your prescription. PRK does kind of the same thing, but by ablating the outer layer of the cornea then ablating differing amounts of the underlying structure to explicitly reshape the cornea. The outer layer heals over the next month or so.
In LASIK leave the outer cornea in tack, but slices it back in a flap. The underlying cornea is reshaped like in PRK, then the flap is folded back. Presto, you're done.
The recovery times are different for each procedure as well as the inherent problems are different (see my previous post.
Glaucoma is an eye-pressure problem caused by the fluid within the eye not "circulating" efficiently (for lack of a better description) and probably isn't related to the RK (which just sliced the very outer portion of the cornea). The jury is still out as to whether PRK and LASIK encourage cateracts though...
I got a halo effect from my PRK procedure, so it's not perfect.
Yes, I understand that this can happen depending on the amount of correction required and (probably more important) the size of your pupils -- the larger, the more possible the effect. You shouldn't get the extreme form possible with LASIK that't due to the hard edge of the flap cut though. Most mild to moderate effects from PRK usually diminish over time. The sibling poster to your message (kasparov) had some good info.
The earth isn't in any danger, and never has been. There are plenty of events that would be disasterous for our species, and plenty of other events that would be equally disasterous for other species, but as you rightly say, life would adapt and continue. However, we might not be around to see it.
Ya, ya, maybe the War Games will bring about the time of the Bumble Bee...
Thanks Dad,
IANAP, but my wife was evaluated for PRK and here's what I learned...
Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) is available to consumers and is actually a better procedure than LASIK, but is more expensive, requires a longer healing period and fewer physicians are trained to perform it (takes longer to get certified, LASIK certs can be obtained via short, vendor classes).
In PRK, the outer surface of the cornea is ablated by the laser (on an lower power) and then reshaped at a higher power. A protective contact lens is applied to patient and remains on for about 5 days, then is removed by the doctor. The patient applies drops to the eye several times a day for about a month while the outer cornea heals.
The benefits of PRK are the lack of any "flap" problems (incorrect cut, complete cut [ouch], misalignment, dislodgment, halo effects, etc...) and ability to correct some visioin situations not correctable via LASIK.
While my wife wasn't a good candidate for the procedure and didn't have it performed, I highly recommend the physician who evaluated her,
Dr. Bruce Bodner Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at EVMS.
...detailed discussions of the workings of Starfleet and The Federation...
Respectfully...
I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed!...
I mean, how old are you people? What have you done with yourselves?... You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?
I didn't think so! There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP! I mean, it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!
For those that don't get this, it's from the movie Airheads. A three-member rock group that calls themselves, "The Lone Rangers". The DJ queries:
Ian [DJ] (Joe Mantegna): "The Lone Rangers?" Chazz (Brendan Fraser): "Yeah...what's wrong with that?" Ian: "There's 3 of you, you're not exactly lone." Chazz: "I have no idea what you're saying right now."
'Modern medicine had tried to cure the symptoms of disease. The Cayce readings focused on building a healthy body that could throw off disease and disorder.'
On the other hand, my wife died of an incurable brain tumor, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Curing that "symptom" would have been nice...for now.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps it was just resting. All shagged out after a long squawk.
if marklar would marklar all the marklar from marklar on top of marklar with the marklar previuously referred to as marklar, would then marklar have to marklar all their marklar to marklar?
Anyone seen Superman Returns? Sir Richard Branson has a cameo as one of the shuttle pilots. I almost didn't recognize him as the shots were brief, but my suspicions were confirmed by the credits.
I'm sure plenty of pedophiles and/or terrorists are neither single nor men.
Freedoms for one, are freedoms for all.
Snakes, space, Samuel L Jackson, swearing, gold!
A similar restriction applies to metal fragments, including those from welding (which is why they ask about this), especially in the eye. If the tech asks you about welding and/or metal frags and you're not sure, they give you an X-Ray first. Don't really want to wrong about this one - ouch!
Avoid the scan, get a tatoo and take up welding.
I don't think any of us can adequately imagine how such a discovery would affect life here on Earth (for good or bad). I know that any life detected would be too far away for actual communication, but simply knowing another civilization exists and the possibility of learning from or helping them - wow.
Of course, I'm waiting for a project that hits closer to home, YETI@home. Damn, those things are elusive.
In a related item, the Bush administration is chastizing the Gray Lady for, yet again, publishing news about a possible new secret weapon against The War On Terror.
Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the country's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times - the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.
On the earth, all your lives belong to Google...
Of course, the liquid is about $270 a liter.
Just great. Now I'll have to learn Spanish and AIBO...
Looks like someone's looking for a visit from Creative's patent laywers!
Robot: It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?
Ahh, the wayward electron...
RK isn't really the same as LASIK, it's more like PRK (basically RK, but with a laser). In RK, slits are cut radially in specific places causing the cornea to reshape as it heals and changing your prescription. PRK does kind of the same thing, but by ablating the outer layer of the cornea then ablating differing amounts of the underlying structure to explicitly reshape the cornea. The outer layer heals over the next month or so.
In LASIK leave the outer cornea in tack, but slices it back in a flap. The underlying cornea is reshaped like in PRK, then the flap is folded back. Presto, you're done.
The recovery times are different for each procedure as well as the inherent problems are different (see my previous post.
Glaucoma is an eye-pressure problem caused by the fluid within the eye not "circulating" efficiently (for lack of a better description) and probably isn't related to the RK (which just sliced the very outer portion of the cornea). The jury is still out as to whether PRK and LASIK encourage cateracts though...
Hope this helps...
Yes, I understand that this can happen depending on the amount of correction required and (probably more important) the size of your pupils -- the larger, the more possible the effect. You shouldn't get the extreme form possible with LASIK that't due to the hard edge of the flap cut though. Most mild to moderate effects from PRK usually diminish over time. The sibling poster to your message (kasparov) had some good info.
All the best.
Ya, ya, maybe the War Games will bring about the time of the Bumble Bee...
Thanks Dad,
- Joshua
Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) is available to consumers and is actually a better procedure than LASIK, but is more expensive, requires a longer healing period and fewer physicians are trained to perform it (takes longer to get certified, LASIK certs can be obtained via short, vendor classes).
In PRK, the outer surface of the cornea is ablated by the laser (on an lower power) and then reshaped at a higher power. A protective contact lens is applied to patient and remains on for about 5 days, then is removed by the doctor. The patient applies drops to the eye several times a day for about a month while the outer cornea heals.
The benefits of PRK are the lack of any "flap" problems (incorrect cut, complete cut [ouch], misalignment, dislodgment, halo effects, etc...) and ability to correct some visioin situations not correctable via LASIK.
While my wife wasn't a good candidate for the procedure and didn't have it performed, I highly recommend the physician who evaluated her, Dr. Bruce Bodner Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at EVMS.
It's OK; he already has the comfy chair...
[ Damn, now I'm going to hell. ]
Don't know if you ever saw that skit, but it was hilarious.
Respectfully...
I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! ...
I mean, how old are you people? What have you done with yourselves? ... You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a girl?
I didn't think so! There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP! I mean, it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!
[ My apologies to Bill Shatner and SNL. ]
See here.
There's actually a fansite for The Lone Rangers
On the other hand, my wife died of an incurable brain tumor, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Curing that "symptom" would have been nice...for now.