At the side of the bed they scanned him, found a clot gave him a local, drilled a hole in his head and drained it - jobe done.
Ouch.
The device probably doesn't tell you whether the bleeding is epidural or subdural. If it's the former, you _might_ be able to get away with the simple procedure you describe, but if it's the latter, you better get the neurosurgeon, and fast.
I suspect if your brain is filling up with blood and the nearest CT scanner is either next town or at the end of a 2 hour waiting list then you'll be pretty damned glad to have a hand held diagnostic that can be used in seconds
The problem is - you'll still need to find an available OR with the corresponding OR team and a neurosurgeon. They're usually where the nearest CT scanner is and have similar waiting lists.
Had one about six weeks ago. Cost...something like seven grand, including scan, interpretation, etc.
Was that in the US ? If so, then maybe the insurance companies over there should think about sending the less urgent cases on an all-expenses-paid vacation to Europe that includes the MRI scan. It'd save them a whole lot of money. Maybe they can even include a business class flight, too.
Because if the technology is valuable in the market, THEY CAN SELL IT FOR MORE.
After they've invested a couple million bucks and several years, during which their competitors were gleefully racking up profits.
Econ 101 doesn't take market inertia into account, and it usually presumes that the people in charge are thinking farther ahead than the next quarterly (or even yearly) report.
Red-light cameras don't take into account that there are good reasons to run through red lights.
Only if they're set up and configured by morons.
Sometimes you are simply going too fast to stop in time.
If they're not set up by morons, they will only be armed about one second after the light turns red. In that case, you're either across the intersection already or you were going way too fast in the first place. Also, the camera will take two pictures, about a second apart, to see if you actually went across the intersection or stopped.
What if there is rain or snow on the ground?
See above.
You might also run a red light if someone is following too closely to you and you don't want to get rear-ended when you slam on the brakes.
Geez, don't your traffic lights have an amber phase ?
Anyway, that "someone" will be on the picture and if they were really that close, you can make an argument.
They are totally biased, because they assume if the camera catches you, you are in the wrong.
Dunno about where you live, but where I live, you can contest everything. They'll have to prove the offense then. Since the people who set up the cameras usually aren't morons around here, you better have a really good reason to do so, though.
prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit
If they believe that the law doesn't apply to them. If they run a red light, they better damn well have a compelling reason to do so and the appropriate signals on.
The new panels are able to produce sixty times the current of traditional models.
Even low-quality solar cells today have around 10% efficiency. Either these things produce a much lower voltage than standard cells, or those claims are bogus.
Anyway. The "problem" with solar cells isn't the conversion efficiency, it's the cost to produce them. If they had come up with a way to make solar cells that are comparable to current models in efficiency but come at 1/60th the cost, they'd have a story.
If a reasonable person would not believe a statement,
The problem is, back when this rule was put into place, the percentage of reasonable people among the general population was far higher than it is today.
We have an A/C unit that is (according to the heating/cooling guys who installed it) nearly twice as large as what you would expect for a building that size.
Looks like they had no clue then. Building size doesn't produce heat, building contents do. People are 300W each, and you can probably assume computers to be ~200-300W each, too.
How insecure does this guy have to be to sue students?
He's just on a power trip. Him putting the basic mission of the school in jeopardy just in order to save his ego from being tarnished says it all. If I was a parent there, I'd tell him to leave my kids education out of his personal crusade and start doing his frickin' job.
We used to lift cars on top of 4 garbage bins (of the older metal cylindrical variety). Worked a treat. An old Skoda, Fiat or ZAZ weight under 600 kg
Didn't you read TFA ? This is America. You're lucky that the students don't weigh 600 kg (yet), and if a car weighs only four times that, it's considered too light and therefore unsafe.
Do you even play Wow? Characters are balanced over all in that there is no super amazing, best character ever, but individual characters have individual strengths.
Play a rogue, mage, warlock or hunter (especially in PvP), and then try a priest or warrior.
You mean to tell me that a bot some how magically speeds the game up? Just because a bot can do something longer than a human can does not change the speed at which time moves.
So if a bot plays seven days, 24 hours a day, it does not reach Level 60/70 faster than a human player who plays for 3 hours a day ? Because that's what you're saying.
Not really. All those hunters using teleport hacks in Dire Maul are doing this for hours on end. I'd settle for a GM looking into this after 30 minutes or even an hours, waiting for the guy to use a teleport hack (couple of minutes), and frickin' kick/ban him right on the spot as soon as he teleports again.
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Ouch.
The device probably doesn't tell you whether the bleeding is epidural or subdural. If it's the former, you _might_ be able to get away with the simple procedure you describe, but if it's the latter, you better get the neurosurgeon, and fast.
The problem is - you'll still need to find an available OR with the corresponding OR team and a neurosurgeon. They're usually where the nearest CT scanner is and have similar waiting lists.
Was that in the US ? If so, then maybe the insurance companies over there should think about sending the less urgent cases on an all-expenses-paid vacation to Europe that includes the MRI scan. It'd save them a whole lot of money. Maybe they can even include a business class flight, too.
I heard people with claustrophilia get kicks out of that.
Wasn't that because bitter almonds actually do contain cyanide ?
Sucking up to your superiors, being a jerk to anyone below you, being good at assigning blame to someone else.
Not from our sun, however. Tidal and geothermal are fairly independet of the current solar output, too.
Real geeks use(d) Fischer-Technik. More possibilities, less colors. I built robots with it 20 years ago ...
After they've invested a couple million bucks and several years, during which their competitors were gleefully racking up profits.
Econ 101 doesn't take market inertia into account, and it usually presumes that the people in charge are thinking farther ahead than the next quarterly (or even yearly) report.
Only if they're set up and configured by morons.
Sometimes you are simply going too fast to stop in time.
If they're not set up by morons, they will only be armed about one second after the light turns red. In that case, you're either across the intersection already or you were going way too fast in the first place. Also, the camera will take two pictures, about a second apart, to see if you actually went across the intersection or stopped.
What if there is rain or snow on the ground?
See above. You might also run a red light if someone is following too closely to you and you don't want to get rear-ended when you slam on the brakes.
Geez, don't your traffic lights have an amber phase ?
Anyway, that "someone" will be on the picture and if they were really that close, you can make an argument.
They are totally biased, because they assume if the camera catches you, you are in the wrong.
Dunno about where you live, but where I live, you can contest everything. They'll have to prove the offense then. Since the people who set up the cameras usually aren't morons around here, you better have a really good reason to do so, though.
If they believe that the law doesn't apply to them. If they run a red light, they better damn well have a compelling reason to do so and the appropriate signals on.
Even low-quality solar cells today have around 10% efficiency. Either these things produce a much lower voltage than standard cells, or those claims are bogus.
Anyway. The "problem" with solar cells isn't the conversion efficiency, it's the cost to produce them. If they had come up with a way to make solar cells that are comparable to current models in efficiency but come at 1/60th the cost, they'd have a story.
Here in Europe, CDs are collected for recycling.
Only if they manage to circumvent the second law of thermodynamics. All computers I know of run on electricity, not heat.
The problem is, back when this rule was put into place, the percentage of reasonable people among the general population was far higher than it is today.
Looks like they had no clue then. Building size doesn't produce heat, building contents do. People are 300W each, and you can probably assume computers to be ~200-300W each, too.
You better put these things into the reduced-oxygen-atmosphere rooms that were mentioned a couple of weeks ago.
He's just on a power trip. Him putting the basic mission of the school in jeopardy just in order to save his ego from being tarnished says it all. If I was a parent there, I'd tell him to leave my kids education out of his personal crusade and start doing his frickin' job.
Didn't you read TFA ? This is America. You're lucky that the students don't weigh 600 kg (yet), and if a car weighs only four times that, it's considered too light and therefore unsafe.
Hm, I think I need 8 GB of battery-buffered RAM for my music collection
You get it back when you terminate your account. You don't if you get banned for cheating or some other breach of the EULA.
Additional advantage: It would keep some of the whiny teenager off the servers.
Maybe create a bunch of servers without this requirement, just for them.
Play a rogue, mage, warlock or hunter (especially in PvP), and then try a priest or warrior.
So if a bot plays seven days, 24 hours a day, it does not reach Level 60/70 faster than a human player who plays for 3 hours a day ? Because that's what you're saying.
Not really. All those hunters using teleport hacks in Dire Maul are doing this for hours on end. I'd settle for a GM looking into this after 30 minutes or even an hours, waiting for the guy to use a teleport hack (couple of minutes), and frickin' kick/ban him right on the spot as soon as he teleports again.
So malice is okay as long as you're also making money with it ?