The plural of 'virus' is 'viruses', its Greek not Latin.
No no no. "virus" is clearly a word with origins in Latin (-us is an ending for Latin words, not Greek ones), and the correct plural, in Latin, would be "viri". However, since the word is used in an English text, the correct plural is "viruses".
Can you explain this to me? I've never heard that certain pigments admit light. What is this all about?
Not the GP, but I think I can explain what this is about: One set of primary colors (RGB) is for "additive" mixing - when you actually have light of these three colors and mix it (e.g. if you have three spotlights, or the subpixels of a monitor). The other set (CMY) is for "subtractive" mixing, which happens when you use pigments that absorb certain spectral portions of white light (e.g. when printing or painting).
With conditions this extreme, I wonder if there is an atmosphere. Would it not get ripped away?
Considering that the planet in question has four times the mass of Jupiter, I would assume that it has more than enough gravity to hang on to its atmosphere.
If this planet is in a 1/1 resonance it will have one side which never gets baked at close approach, so conditions on the surface may not be as bad as they first seem.
If the winds are strong enough in the atmosphere and the atmosphere is thick enough, it may not matter what side of the planet you're on. Just like Venus, which rotates very slowly, but is pretty much the same sizzling hellhole regardless of whether you look at the day or night side.
How would you use your ID in such a scenario, please?
By using an ID verification service. Duh!
The process works like this: You fill in the form at the banks web site, they send you a letter with the instructions for the process (here in Germany, the most common one is called PostIdent), you move your behind to the nearest post office, present them with the letter from the bank and your ID, and they'll send the data to the bank.
Absofrickinlutely no need to show up at the bank in person, just at the nearest post office.
The great freedom we have to _initiate_ businesses anywhere in 50 states has a price to pay, and that is the impersonation.
As you see, we have that freedom, too, and pay with a small inconvenience for a greatly reduced risk of impersonation. Online banking is very popular here, see banks like ING-DiBa, comdirect (part of Commerzbank), etc, etc, etc. If things were as limited as you believe they are, none of these banks would exist. Sorry to bust your bubble there.
Yay, a RAM HD! I'd like to see the pagefile dig into this - Microsoft must be foaming at the mouth. Sorry if that seems like trolling, but I've had it up to here with the constant and painful HD thrashing that Windows always seems to enjoy doing (and probably their less than perfect implementation of it).
You'll be better off sticking all that RAM in your computer than in a $380 box. (Or, optionally, spend the $380 to upgrade your mainboard to one that can hold all the RAM).
The only way to have true control over your health is to pay the bills yourself. I don't have any insurance. By choice. Every time I look at the annual enrollment, I decide it's cheaper to pay my dental bills (~$300 a year) or medical bills (zero) using my own cash.
Just wait until you get hit with that six-figure medical bill and a few months of not being able to work ("Yeah, right, that's never, ever gonna happen to me."). What will you do then, stick your doctor (and that means all the other patients) with the bill?
This can easily expand to the requirement that nobody ever use a machine that they do not fully understand and can describe in detail the inner workings of.
Err, no, that's not possible. The case in question is about using a machine as evidence in a fscking court of law... and it's a machine that says "You're guilty.". It doesn't concern the use of machines that are not evidence.
You can use any machine you want without understanding its inner workings, as long as you're not using it as evidence in a trial.
You didn't have to go thru' "the hassle of getting a Visa" if you are from a country that is approved under this Program - you just filled in a green form in-flight before arriving in the US (just like I did in 2007 and 2008).
In fact, if you really wanted to, you could fill in that form after you landed, before you go through immigrations. Most people don't, since that means that they would end up at the end of a very long line.
Now, you are being required to complete an online form 72 hours prior to travelling to the US, which IS a new and slightly more onerous task than just completing the form in-flight.
Here, I highlighted the two points that make the new procedure more onerous and problematic.
Then one would hope there's a provision for dealing with this.
Yes, it's "Do not pass go, take the next plane home, and if you were from a country in the visa waiver program, you can forget about that now and go to the nearest consulate to get an actual tourist visa every time you want to enter the States again since you've been denied entry once."
It's worse because that form is 1) badly designed and a pain in the arse to fill out and 2) everyone warns of dire consequences for not filling it out correctly.
You lost me there. How is that different from the new solution, aside from not requiring computer literacy and an internet connection (Ha, take that you evil terrorist grannies - without the help of your grandkids, you're not going to get in!).
Sir, you have the choice between this $40k rube goldberg incubator that fails, on average, every other week or whenever the power goes a bit wonky, and our nurses can't operate correctly because we can't find the manual, or this one built out of commodity parts with a MTBF of 40k hours that can be serviced by the guy who also works on our ambulances?
So how are the nurses going to operate this one without training or manuals? Not to mention the sheer nightmare of things built out of random parts.... every unit is unique.
It's also likely to depend on exactly what those "safety" considerations are.
A fairly nebulous statement. If you have any concrete arguments, I'd be happy to read them.
Yet cars are typically sold with the idea of transporting humans.
They're sold with the idea of _transporting_ _adults_. They're not sold with the idea of being in contact with premature neonates for extended time or even with the idea of being sterilized occasionally. What point are you trying to make?
t isn't unknown for "hazard analysis" in the "first world" to be over concerned with all sorts of "freak acident" possibilities, sometimes to the point of overlooking actual risks.
Another nebulous statement. With the contraption from the article, I'd have quite a list of possible hazards that need to be excluded. From burn and electrical hazards to simple things like proper sterilization.
A forty-fold increase in the price of a tangible item to cover feel-good intangibles is something you consider reasonable for a health care appliance?
Being already assembled is a very tangible benefit, and the whole biocompatibility stuff is also very tangible (or rather - you'll realize the difference after having been in contact with the surfaces of the thing). Same goes for all the other questions. Can it be sterilized properly?
And no, a factor of 40 between a bunch of low-quality, untested parts that maybe can be assembled into something and a tested, finished product that works out of the box is not unreasonable.
Only for people who are bad at math. They're quoting $1000, which is probably just the cost for the parts, and compare it to the catalog price of a brand-spankin'-new incubator which comes with such niceties as being already assembled, being safety- and biocompatibility tested (and you can sue the heck out of whoever made the thing if anything goes wrong), etc.
Almost any medical device or drug can be made dirt cheap if you throw enough safety considerations out of the window.
Or do these guys want to tell me that those $1000 also include R&D (just how many hours did they spend designing it?), biocompatibility testing (I don't think most materials used in cars undergo this by default), electrical/mechanical/chemical hazard analysis, etc.
Also, they're comparing the parts&labor price of their contraption to the list price of an actual incubator. Sorry guys, you fail accounting, big time. The parts&labor cost of the incubator is probably in the sub-$10k range (I wouldn't be surprised if it was very, very close to their $1000, even). The other >$30k are R&D, testing, support, etc, and of course a fat profit.
Water and CO2 are substances that pretty much form all by themselves, from very common elements. Wake me up when they find stuff that wouldn't occur on a "dead" world (oxygen/fluorine/chlorine, for example).
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I'd still be wary of working for a company that subjects people to that kind of release form. Or lie detector tests, for that matter.
Why, they got some good information out of asking for all that:
1. Candidate obviously reads and understands the material given to him.
2. Candidate knows that polygraph tests are nonsense.
Captch: evidence. Heh.
So far, that's correct.
The plural of 'virus' is 'viruses', its Greek not Latin.
No no no. "virus" is clearly a word with origins in Latin (-us is an ending for Latin words, not Greek ones), and the correct plural, in Latin, would be "viri". However, since the word is used in an English text, the correct plural is "viruses".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virus
Can you explain this to me? I've never heard that certain pigments admit light. What is this all about?
Not the GP, but I think I can explain what this is about: One set of primary colors (RGB) is for "additive" mixing - when you actually have light of these three colors and mix it (e.g. if you have three spotlights, or the subpixels of a monitor). The other set (CMY) is for "subtractive" mixing, which happens when you use pigments that absorb certain spectral portions of white light (e.g. when printing or painting).
With conditions this extreme, I wonder if there is an atmosphere. Would it not get ripped away?
Considering that the planet in question has four times the mass of Jupiter, I would assume that it has more than enough gravity to hang on to its atmosphere.
If this planet is in a 1/1 resonance it will have one side which never gets baked at close approach, so conditions on the surface may not be as bad as they first seem.
If the winds are strong enough in the atmosphere and the atmosphere is thick enough, it may not matter what side of the planet you're on. Just like Venus, which rotates very slowly, but is pretty much the same sizzling hellhole regardless of whether you look at the day or night side.
How would you use your ID in such a scenario, please?
By using an ID verification service. Duh!
The process works like this: You fill in the form at the banks web site, they send you a letter with the instructions for the process (here in Germany, the most common one is called PostIdent), you move your behind to the nearest post office, present them with the letter from the bank and your ID, and they'll send the data to the bank.
Absofrickinlutely no need to show up at the bank in person, just at the nearest post office.
The great freedom we have to _initiate_ businesses anywhere in 50 states has a price to pay, and that is the impersonation.
As you see, we have that freedom, too, and pay with a small inconvenience for a greatly reduced risk of impersonation. Online banking is very popular here, see banks like ING-DiBa, comdirect (part of Commerzbank), etc, etc, etc. If things were as limited as you believe they are, none of these banks would exist. Sorry to bust your bubble there.
Yay, a RAM HD! I'd like to see the pagefile dig into this - Microsoft must be foaming at the mouth. Sorry if that seems like trolling, but I've had it up to here with the constant and painful HD thrashing that Windows always seems to enjoy doing (and probably their less than perfect implementation of it).
You'll be better off sticking all that RAM in your computer than in a $380 box. (Or, optionally, spend the $380 to upgrade your mainboard to one that can hold all the RAM).
No, but he can veto it. And the experience will help him decide when to do that, and for what reason.
And I'm wondering if this might not be a better system than the party-pairs we elect today. Any thoughts about that??
Certainly, the old system makes it easier for the second place contender to actually become president.
The only way to have true control over your health is to pay the bills yourself. I don't have any insurance. By choice. Every time I look at the annual enrollment, I decide it's cheaper to pay my dental bills (~$300 a year) or medical bills (zero) using my own cash.
Just wait until you get hit with that six-figure medical bill and a few months of not being able to work ("Yeah, right, that's never, ever gonna happen to me."). What will you do then, stick your doctor (and that means all the other patients) with the bill?
This can easily expand to the requirement that nobody ever use a machine that they do not fully understand and can describe in detail the inner workings of.
Err, no, that's not possible. The case in question is about using a machine as evidence in a fscking court of law ... and it's a machine that says "You're guilty.". It doesn't concern the use of machines that are not evidence.
You can use any machine you want without understanding its inner workings, as long as you're not using it as evidence in a trial.
In fact, if you really wanted to, you could fill in that form after you landed, before you go through immigrations. Most people don't, since that means that they would end up at the end of a very long line.
Now, you are being required to complete an online form 72 hours prior to travelling to the US, which IS a new and slightly more onerous task than just completing the form in-flight.
Here, I highlighted the two points that make the new procedure more onerous and problematic.
One more advantage to owning a business, no one can stop you from hiring yourself.
Anyone can refrain from doing business with you, though.
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What definition of mental disorder are they using?
One that allows them to stick you in prison for lying on the form if you're ever arrested (for whatever reason) in the US.
Yes, for anyone who finds writing letters on a piece of paper harder than using a web browser.
What about all the people for which this isn't true?
Yes, it's "Do not pass go, take the next plane home, and if you were from a country in the visa waiver program, you can forget about that now and go to the nearest consulate to get an actual tourist visa every time you want to enter the States again since you've been denied entry once."
Then you're screwed.
What, you didn't know that?
It's worse because that form is 1) badly designed and a pain in the arse to fill out and 2) everyone warns of dire consequences for not filling it out correctly.
You lost me there. How is that different from the new solution, aside from not requiring computer literacy and an internet connection (Ha, take that you evil terrorist grannies - without the help of your grandkids, you're not going to get in!).
So how are the nurses going to operate this one without training or manuals? Not to mention the sheer nightmare of things built out of random parts .... every unit is unique.
A fairly nebulous statement. If you have any concrete arguments, I'd be happy to read them.
Yet cars are typically sold with the idea of transporting humans.
They're sold with the idea of _transporting_ _adults_. They're not sold with the idea of being in contact with premature neonates for extended time or even with the idea of being sterilized occasionally. What point are you trying to make?
t isn't unknown for "hazard analysis" in the "first world" to be over concerned with all sorts of "freak acident" possibilities, sometimes to the point of overlooking actual risks.
Another nebulous statement. With the contraption from the article, I'd have quite a list of possible hazards that need to be excluded. From burn and electrical hazards to simple things like proper sterilization.
A forty-fold increase in the price of a tangible item to cover feel-good intangibles is something you consider reasonable for a health care appliance?
Being already assembled is a very tangible benefit, and the whole biocompatibility stuff is also very tangible (or rather - you'll realize the difference after having been in contact with the surfaces of the thing). Same goes for all the other questions. Can it be sterilized properly?
And no, a factor of 40 between a bunch of low-quality, untested parts that maybe can be assembled into something and a tested, finished product that works out of the box is not unreasonable.
Pretty absurd, eh?
Only for people who are bad at math. They're quoting $1000, which is probably just the cost for the parts, and compare it to the catalog price of a brand-spankin'-new incubator which comes with such niceties as being already assembled, being safety- and biocompatibility tested (and you can sue the heck out of whoever made the thing if anything goes wrong), etc.
Almost any medical device or drug can be made dirt cheap if you throw enough safety considerations out of the window.
Or do these guys want to tell me that those $1000 also include R&D (just how many hours did they spend designing it?), biocompatibility testing (I don't think most materials used in cars undergo this by default), electrical/mechanical/chemical hazard analysis, etc.
Also, they're comparing the parts&labor price of their contraption to the list price of an actual incubator. Sorry guys, you fail accounting, big time. The parts&labor cost of the incubator is probably in the sub-$10k range (I wouldn't be surprised if it was very, very close to their $1000, even). The other >$30k are R&D, testing, support, etc, and of course a fat profit.
Water and CO2 are substances that pretty much form all by themselves, from very common elements. Wake me up when they find stuff that wouldn't occur on a "dead" world (oxygen/fluorine/chlorine, for example).