think (not certain) that you're supposed to parse that like this: "Have you ever (been refused admission to the U.S., or been the subject of a deportation hearing or sought to obtain or assist others to obtain a visa, entry into the U.S., or any other U.S. immigration benefit) by fraud or willful misrepresentation or other unlawful means?"
Sorry, but you need to parse it like this:
"Have you ever been refused admission to the U.S., or been the subject of a deportation hearing or (sought to obtain or assist others to obtain a visa, entry into the U.S., or any other U.S. immigration benefit by fraud or willful misrepresentation or other unlawful means) ?"
Yes, this means that if you've ever been refused admission to the U.S., for whatever reason, then you will need to go and try to get a visa each and every time you travel over there.
There are a great many stories out there regarding US refusing entry to people who otherwise look like they have no suspicion.
The airports probably have quotas to fill. And if there aren't enough people with faulty papers in a given week, they'll just pick some random people to refuse entry to.
WHY? Why do we give licenses to foreigners to begin with?
Because foreigners might want to, um, drive cars, too ? And not get scalped by insurance companies for not having a domestic drivers license ? (The international license thingie makes you a big blinking target for ripoff. Forget about it if you want to stay in a foreign country for more than a few weeks).
The question you need to ask is "Why is a drivers license treated as an ID document in my country ?". In the rest of the civilized world, that's not the case. You have documents that are an ID and you have documents that allow you to drive a vehicle on public roads. And you cannot use one type for the purpose of the other.
Today, they're actually taking _some_ effort in disposing of the stuff. I recall that a while ago, the procedure to dispose of VX was "fill old ship with VX munitions and sink it in the middle of the Atlantic ocean".
Things that will kill in 100 mgs or less. (VX, GB etc, now being safely disposed of).
I think you mean 100 ug, not mg. A substance that you need milligrams of in order to kill a human (e.g. potassium cyanide) is "relatively non-toxic" when compared to nerve agents.
I'm being serious here... In the case that I ever end up in a public space where it becomes obvious that a nerve gas has been released, (and there is no clear way of getting out ie. subway system, sports venue...) I would take off one of my socks and piss on it.
Nice gesture, but completely futile.
This was commonly done in WWI during nerve gas attacks.
No nerve gasses were used in WWI. Mustard, phosgen, chlorine, etc. aren't nerve gasses.
With lack of gas masks, the best way to protect yourself was to breathe through a cloth soaked in ammonia. Piss being the easiest source of it.
Pretty much every real nerve gas is also absorbed through the skin. A gas mask won't protect you, and your sock method won't either.
Sorry, but by those criteria my money is on the Roman legion.
Sorry, as far as pure body count over time goes, these guys can't compete with their modern counterparts. However, what they could publicly do to individuals makes Abu Ghoreib and Gitmo look like shining examples of humane treatment of captives.
It especially sucks because the chemo is so toxic is ruins the vein at the injection point, so you while you can insert an IV it only lasts a day or two before they need to move it.
Um, did they also tell you what happens when they inject the chemicals into something other than a vein (i.e. they miss and inject them into muscle or other tissue) ? With some bad luck, you can kiss the limb goodbye in that case.
You definitely don't want chemotherapy drugs injected in any other way than through a needle in one of your veins.
Of course, I'm assuming that HP is not planning to use this invention to deliver anything that's painful by design.
Depends on what kind of government contracts they're getting. I bet some agencies out there are just drooling at the prospect of having ready-made, pre-packaged units of pain that do not leave any permanent marks or damage at their disposal.
Yes, there will be some liability concerns but with proper testing and FDA approval, only an actual fuck up is going to really expose a company to liability.
That changes when your device starts making decisions which are usually left to a physician. There's only a very small number of devices out there that do so right now (AEDs, implantable defibrillators and such), and they base their decisions on fairly trivial parameters and only act when the likely outcome of not doing so is a dead patient.
Meanwhile, the possible benefits of such sensor injectors are immense.
Companies don't exist for immense benefits for humanity. They exist for immense profits for their shareholders, and hence have to try to avoid anything that could cut into these profits. Like multi-million-dollar lawsuits.
Oh, and I do work in the medical devices industry.
If this technology triumphs, the next addition should be sensors that control the release of chemicals taking the current situation into consideration.
No company wants to open that bag of liability issues. If your device makes medical decisions (instead of leaving them to a physician), you make yourself a big fat blinking glowing target for all sorts of legal trouble. Current example: Infusion pumps. While studies show that feedback-controlled infusion pumps lead to better patient outcomes, no company wants to make them because they don't want to get slapped with a multi-million-dollar lawsuit for the one patient in a thousand who thinks he might have had a better outcome with a standard infusion pump.
Rapid is relative. I consider sooner or rapid in this case any where from 5-10 human generations.
Five to ten generations is nothing as far as evolution goes. How far have we evolved away from out great-great-grandparents ? Not much. Try fifty to a hundred generations, and you just might start to see some effects. But we're still pretty much the same as our ancestors 2000 years ago. Try a thousand generations, and you might start seeing significant effects. That's 30000 years.
For a bacterium that divides every 30 minutes, a thousand generations is just about 21 days.
While ova are all produced at one time, they are better shielded from alpha and beta radiation than spermatozoa due to not swinging wild and free behind a few mm of skin and flesh.
Well, alpha and beta emitters are mainly a problem if they're ingested, so it doesn't really matter how well something is protected from radiation coming from the outside.
But at lowish levels it can promote rapid diversification in a population, by the same argument.
Unfortunately, with the human generation span being 30 years, even a fast rate of diversification in the human gene pool will be orders of magnitude smaller than "rapid". Bacteria can diversify rapidly. Maybe mice can, too. But humans ? We're diversifying in slow motion, if anything.
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I'm afraid you're not. You've obviously never read the datasheet of a microprocessor or microcontroller. Turn in your geek license and try again.
Sorry, but you need to parse it like this:
"Have you ever been refused admission to the U.S., or been the subject of a deportation hearing or (sought to obtain or assist others to obtain a visa, entry into the U.S., or any other U.S. immigration benefit by fraud or willful misrepresentation or other unlawful means) ?"
Yes, this means that if you've ever been refused admission to the U.S., for whatever reason, then you will need to go and try to get a visa each and every time you travel over there.
Here's an explanation:
http://germany.usembassy.gov/visa/who_must_apply.html
The airports probably have quotas to fill. And if there aren't enough people with faulty papers in a given week, they'll just pick some random people to refuse entry to.
That is entirely your problem, basically. If you didn't get a visa when you needed one, you're basically screwed.
Because foreigners might want to, um, drive cars, too ? And not get scalped by insurance companies for not having a domestic drivers license ? (The international license thingie makes you a big blinking target for ripoff. Forget about it if you want to stay in a foreign country for more than a few weeks).
The question you need to ask is "Why is a drivers license treated as an ID document in my country ?". In the rest of the civilized world, that's not the case. You have documents that are an ID and you have documents that allow you to drive a vehicle on public roads. And you cannot use one type for the purpose of the other.
That'll just get you deported from the country and barred from re-entry for life. If you survive the few taser hits that come first, that is.
... would be worse if they had to learn to deal with these problems in Mars orbit.
Today, they're actually taking _some_ effort in disposing of the stuff. I recall that a while ago, the procedure to dispose of VX was "fill old ship with VX munitions and sink it in the middle of the Atlantic ocean".
I think you mean 100 ug, not mg. A substance that you need milligrams of in order to kill a human (e.g. potassium cyanide) is "relatively non-toxic" when compared to nerve agents.
Of course they will ! Why, they've got plenty of test subjects that can't sue if anything goes wrong.
Nice gesture, but completely futile.
This was commonly done in WWI during nerve gas attacks.
No nerve gasses were used in WWI. Mustard, phosgen, chlorine, etc. aren't nerve gasses.
With lack of gas masks, the best way to protect yourself was to breathe through a cloth soaked in ammonia. Piss being the easiest source of it.
Pretty much every real nerve gas is also absorbed through the skin. A gas mask won't protect you, and your sock method won't either.
I always wondered why Doom takes place on Mars. Venus would be so much more appropriate.
Homer Simpson ? That's been ancient Jedi wisdom since, well, a long time ago. "Do, or do not. There is no try."
Sorry, as far as pure body count over time goes, these guys can't compete with their modern counterparts. However, what they could publicly do to individuals makes Abu Ghoreib and Gitmo look like shining examples of humane treatment of captives.
It wasn't all that foreign to the Japanese. They've already had at least half a century of practice with democratic structures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Japan
Um, did they also tell you what happens when they inject the chemicals into something other than a vein (i.e. they miss and inject them into muscle or other tissue) ? With some bad luck, you can kiss the limb goodbye in that case.
You definitely don't want chemotherapy drugs injected in any other way than through a needle in one of your veins.
I thought that was nausea, not pain
Depends on what kind of government contracts they're getting. I bet some agencies out there are just drooling at the prospect of having ready-made, pre-packaged units of pain that do not leave any permanent marks or damage at their disposal.
That changes when your device starts making decisions which are usually left to a physician. There's only a very small number of devices out there that do so right now (AEDs, implantable defibrillators and such), and they base their decisions on fairly trivial parameters and only act when the likely outcome of not doing so is a dead patient.
Meanwhile, the possible benefits of such sensor injectors are immense.
Companies don't exist for immense benefits for humanity. They exist for immense profits for their shareholders, and hence have to try to avoid anything that could cut into these profits. Like multi-million-dollar lawsuits.
Oh, and I do work in the medical devices industry.
No company wants to open that bag of liability issues. If your device makes medical decisions (instead of leaving them to a physician), you make yourself a big fat blinking glowing target for all sorts of legal trouble. Current example: Infusion pumps. While studies show that feedback-controlled infusion pumps lead to better patient outcomes, no company wants to make them because they don't want to get slapped with a multi-million-dollar lawsuit for the one patient in a thousand who thinks he might have had a better outcome with a standard infusion pump.
Five to ten generations is nothing as far as evolution goes. How far have we evolved away from out great-great-grandparents ? Not much. Try fifty to a hundred generations, and you just might start to see some effects. But we're still pretty much the same as our ancestors 2000 years ago. Try a thousand generations, and you might start seeing significant effects. That's 30000 years.
For a bacterium that divides every 30 minutes, a thousand generations is just about 21 days.
Only as long as fuel and airports are cheap.
You'd be right, if it wasn't for many, many involuntary guinea pigs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments
Also, what happens to humans after exposure to really high levels of radiation is pretty well known from several criticality accidents.
Well, alpha and beta emitters are mainly a problem if they're ingested, so it doesn't really matter how well something is protected from radiation coming from the outside.
But at lowish levels it can promote rapid diversification in a population, by the same argument.
Unfortunately, with the human generation span being 30 years, even a fast rate of diversification in the human gene pool will be orders of magnitude smaller than "rapid". Bacteria can diversify rapidly. Maybe mice can, too. But humans ? We're diversifying in slow motion, if anything.
Not if you find ways of achieving the same result while using less energy.