I wonder if there is anything special about nitrogen that makes the experience less unpleasant than say breathing too much helium ( which I've done accidentally while making my voice high for fun, and which I found quite unpleasant ).
The relevant thing is the complete absence of oxygen in the inhaled gas mixture, not the presence of any other gases. This will lead to deoxygenation of the blood as it passes through the lungs, and unconsciousness as soon as the deoxygenated blood reaches the brain (which usually takes between 10 and 20 seconds).
Nitrogen is convenient because it's odorless, non-toxic at atmospheric pressure and not flammable.
The heart is controlled by the brain stem, which is below the cerebellum. Therefore, hanging is much more effective at stopping the heart, because it disconnects the brain stem from the rest of the body.
Physiology 101: The heart has its own pacemaker. The rate at which it beats is, in part, controlled by the brain, but in the absence of this input, it will keep beating with its own rhythm as long as it is able to.
You have just given me a month's worth of nightmares.
Oh, come on. I just said lying there, conscious but unable to move, was a scary experience, but at least the operation was already over. I didn't wake up in the middle of it. Though that's been known to happen on rare occasions, too.
IF Democrats are the tax and spend party, then the Republicans are just the spend party.
No, they're the "borrow and spend" party. Because borrowing is so much nicer. "Don't take all that money from me, take it from my kids, their kids, their kids kids, etc".
In terms of equipment, you just need a mask and a cylinder of nitrogen. It's virtually impossible mis-administer. It's cheap. It's fast - it takes around 15 seconds.
Plus however long the condemned can hold his breath.
Still, that's about the only drawback. Otherwise, it's safe for whomever is administering it, not too harsh on the audience (there may be some struggling, but there's no blood or worse), allows an open-casket funeral, and leaves the organs available for transplantation.
You'd have to find a doctor willing to administer it. Most doctors do have a least a scrap of ethics left and will not use their knowledge and training to kill someone, especially not against their wishes.
I have read about botched hangings and they can be pretty horrific.
For the audience, maybe. Having your head torn off will result in unconsciousness just as quickly as having your neck broken, but it's a bit harder for the audience to stomach. Moral of the story: If you can't watch people die, don't attend a fscking execution.
Lethal injection at least it seems like a painless death.
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless". Of course, the audience won't notice any of this, so it's fairly painless to them.
If you want a government without compromise, then run for office yourself.
No no no. Gather a large enough bunch of thugs and establish a dictatorship (with yourself as the dictator). There, no compromise. You'll never get that in any form of democratic government.
That's about what I'd expect from a website owned by Bayer. They lost the trademark in countries that matter.
Proves that most people are too dumb to memorize and/or pronounce acetylsalicylic acid correctly. If you ask for aspirin at a pharmacy, either you or your pharmacist is in that group, or you want the stuff made by Bayer in fizzy tablet form (which acts a lot faster than the simple generic tablets and is a true godsend if you want that headache to stop sooner rather than later. It's what I use against my caffeine withdrawal headaches.)
Having woken early one morning, I went down to the kitchen to make my own. I remember finding a tin labeled Folgers Crystals (or something similar) and looking at the instructions, I swear it read "2 tablespoons for 20 servings". I found the filter machine and ignoring the suggested amounts, filled the little paper filter to the brim.
Wait... are you really saying that you put instant coffee into a coffee maker?
CANDU reactors, in particular, are controlled directly by two computers (one controlling, the other performing the same calculations/operations, just not controlling anything unless there's a problem).
Redundant controllers won't help you if you don't recognize a faulty sensor. In case of the plane shutting off engines in mid-flight, the autopilot determined that the plane had touched down (due to a faulty altitude sensor) and cut the engine power.
Heck, now that I've read up on the TMI incident, it wasn't even a faulty sensor, it was a inherently flawed sensor design (showing only whether a solenoid was powered or not, not whether the associated valve was open or not).
Simple, except the computer noticed 700 things wrong in the first few minutes of the TMI accident, causing the one audible alarm to ring continuously until it was shut off as useless.
... and the humans chose to ignore it? How is that the computers fault?
If the alarm goes off in a nuclear plant, operating procedure should say: Check briefly if the computer is acting up, and then shut the whole frickin' plant down. Why wasn't it done? Let me guess: It costs a whole bunch of money. So, the accident happened due to greed.
... of safety-critical systems, they do things like shut off the engines on a plane in mid-flight due to a sensor malfunction. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
And even then they had some marks of socially oriented / welfare state
I supposed you could call "killing everyone who can't pull his own weight" "socially oriented" (in a twisted, sick, fscked-up kind of way), but it's definitely not part of a welfare state.
most notably Kraft durch Freude, but also Autobahn, and Volkswagen (the latter in idea if not in implementation).
The latter two were more or less preparations for the war, while giving the NSDAP a nice "socialist" facade. VW never delivered any of the planned KdF cars before switching to wartime production.
Of course, it doesn't mean that it makes any sense to call Hitler a socialist out of context without further qualification, or that GGP was totally clueless when he mentioned Marx...
Marx is about making the means for production (the capital) owned by the public, not about leisure activities for workers.
There is a Dutch translation of Machiavelli, which has as title "The Ruler" (De heerser), instead of "The Prince", where the translator based his choice of wording that the original title "Il Principe" originally means more than someone of noble blood who is the son of a king.
The word "prince" can mean both in English - son of a king, or ruler (of a principality).
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Did they think of that?
Read the stack of paperwork that comes with the contract. I bet it says something along the lines of "We are not liable for any damages that the deactivation of the device for whatever reason causes.". That should qualify as "thinking of it".
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Here in Texas a 20 mile bike ride is not the way to start out the work day, unless you are in the shower business.
All you need is a place to shower at work and a locker room. If you're planning on a 20 mile bike ride to work, then those five minutes for taking a shower and changing into your work clothes shouldn't be a problem.
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Yes - it's a hint that capital punishment might be considered an unusual punishment.
The relevant thing is the complete absence of oxygen in the inhaled gas mixture, not the presence of any other gases. This will lead to deoxygenation of the blood as it passes through the lungs, and unconsciousness as soon as the deoxygenated blood reaches the brain (which usually takes between 10 and 20 seconds).
Nitrogen is convenient because it's odorless, non-toxic at atmospheric pressure and not flammable.
Especially when it's not administered and monitored by an anaesthiologist.
Physiology 101: The heart has its own pacemaker. The rate at which it beats is, in part, controlled by the brain, but in the absence of this input, it will keep beating with its own rhythm as long as it is able to.
Why are they unable to do so for a lethal injection?
Because most doctors have a least some scraps of professional ethics left and hence don't want to get involved in executions.
You have just given me a month's worth of nightmares.
Oh, come on. I just said lying there, conscious but unable to move, was a scary experience, but at least the operation was already over. I didn't wake up in the middle of it. Though that's been known to happen on rare occasions, too.
No, they're the "borrow and spend" party. Because borrowing is so much nicer. "Don't take all that money from me, take it from my kids, their kids, their kids kids, etc".
Have you ever undergone general anesthesia?
Yes. I've also regained consciousness once before the muscle relaxant had worn off completely. That's a pretty scary experience.
We know how to knock people out quickly and painlessly very well.
Well, I sure don't. Do you? An anaesthesiologist should know, but doctors usually don't want to get involved in executions.
Plus however long the condemned can hold his breath.
Still, that's about the only drawback. Otherwise, it's safe for whomever is administering it, not too harsh on the audience (there may be some struggling, but there's no blood or worse), allows an open-casket funeral, and leaves the organs available for transplantation.
Does this process not work on humans?
You'd have to find a doctor willing to administer it. Most doctors do have a least a scrap of ethics left and will not use their knowledge and training to kill someone, especially not against their wishes.
I'm sorry, but what basic right was denied to Saddam by making him watch South Park?
Human dignity.
I have read about botched hangings and they can be pretty horrific.
For the audience, maybe. Having your head torn off will result in unconsciousness just as quickly as having your neck broken, but it's a bit harder for the audience to stomach. Moral of the story: If you can't watch people die, don't attend a fscking execution.
Lethal injection at least it seems like a painless death.
Yes, if you count consciously witnessing yourself suffocate because your diaphragm is paralyzed as "painless". Of course, the audience won't notice any of this, so it's fairly painless to them.
If you want a government without compromise, then run for office yourself.
No no no. Gather a large enough bunch of thugs and establish a dictatorship (with yourself as the dictator). There, no compromise. You'll never get that in any form of democratic government.
That's about what I'd expect from a website owned by Bayer. They lost the trademark in countries that matter.
Proves that most people are too dumb to memorize and/or pronounce acetylsalicylic acid correctly. If you ask for aspirin at a pharmacy, either you or your pharmacist is in that group, or you want the stuff made by Bayer in fizzy tablet form (which acts a lot faster than the simple generic tablets and is a true godsend if you want that headache to stop sooner rather than later. It's what I use against my caffeine withdrawal headaches.)
Having woken early one morning, I went down to the kitchen to make my own. I remember finding a tin labeled Folgers Crystals (or something similar) and looking at the instructions, I swear it read "2 tablespoons for 20 servings". I found the filter machine and ignoring the suggested amounts, filled the little paper filter to the brim.
Wait ... are you really saying that you put instant coffee into a coffee maker?
Unfortunately, without coffee, I find it almost impossible to concentrate for any extended length of time.
You might want to get yourself checked for adult ADHD.
Redundant controllers won't help you if you don't recognize a faulty sensor. In case of the plane shutting off engines in mid-flight, the autopilot determined that the plane had touched down (due to a faulty altitude sensor) and cut the engine power.
Heck, now that I've read up on the TMI incident, it wasn't even a faulty sensor, it was a inherently flawed sensor design (showing only whether a solenoid was powered or not, not whether the associated valve was open or not).
If the alarm goes off in a nuclear plant, operating procedure should say: Check briefly if the computer is acting up, and then shut the whole frickin' plant down. Why wasn't it done? Let me guess: It costs a whole bunch of money. So, the accident happened due to greed.
... of safety-critical systems, they do things like shut off the engines on a plane in mid-flight due to a sensor malfunction. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
And even then they had some marks of socially oriented / welfare state
I supposed you could call "killing everyone who can't pull his own weight" "socially oriented" (in a twisted, sick, fscked-up kind of way), but it's definitely not part of a welfare state.
most notably Kraft durch Freude, but also Autobahn, and Volkswagen (the latter in idea if not in implementation).
The latter two were more or less preparations for the war, while giving the NSDAP a nice "socialist" facade. VW never delivered any of the planned KdF cars before switching to wartime production.
Of course, it doesn't mean that it makes any sense to call Hitler a socialist out of context without further qualification, or that GGP was totally clueless when he mentioned Marx...
Marx is about making the means for production (the capital) owned by the public, not about leisure activities for workers.
There is a Dutch translation of Machiavelli, which has as title "The Ruler" (De heerser), instead of "The Prince", where the translator based his choice of wording that the original title "Il Principe" originally means more than someone of noble blood who is the son of a king.
The word "prince" can mean both in English - son of a king, or ruler (of a principality).
Did they think of that?
Read the stack of paperwork that comes with the contract. I bet it says something along the lines of "We are not liable for any damages that the deactivation of the device for whatever reason causes.". That should qualify as "thinking of it".
Here in Texas a 20 mile bike ride is not the way to start out the work day, unless you are in the shower business.
All you need is a place to shower at work and a locker room. If you're planning on a 20 mile bike ride to work, then those five minutes for taking a shower and changing into your work clothes shouldn't be a problem.
oh wait ... this is about cellphones.
Nevermind.