Looks like we can evolve all we want...it's not necesarily going to make us smarter. Certainly not by 2008.
Then we might as well just start dumping coffee in the water supply. Works for me. And if it doesn't enhance intelligence -- and I've always suspected in my own informal studies it does -- then at least we can all be stupid faster.
And sorry for not making it through TFA. Raiders/Patriots. Priorities, you know.
Very good points -- and thanks for the Wiki links to the other posters. Why I forgot my umbilical to knowledge, the Wiki, I do not know. (Like the lack of DRM -- my default state is paranoid, and I see no reason to change it.)
Yeah, I should use a Microsoft beta file system, because my files and documents aren't in enough danger as it is....
Seriously, is there an upside to this system to the casual-to-serious user? Or is it mostly a DRM-delivery platform? I read TFAs, but this sentence hurt me: "(Integrated data initiative is a term used to refer to a group of technologies whose goal is to provide better integration for data..."...aaaand I just bluescreened my brain.
Seems this fellow Chris Doyle built a model of Serenity from the upcoming movie
There's a key word missing from this sentence that might put it into a clearer perspective, and that word is Lego. That said, the Lego Wash is adorable.
You could probably count the number of recorded fatal accidents in the history of MRI on one hand and how many people have had the procedure?
Oh, it's not an entirely rational fear at all. That's the way fear acts. And you're right about the fatalities -- I know of only five myself. But the NY Times (no reg? sweet) also points out that incidents tend to be underreported, with the FDA database of MRI accidents only being updated if the scanner itself is damaged. I agree it's wondrous, if not miraculous technology and its benefit is hard to sufficiently encapsulate. But I'm not sure that awareness of its safety procedures and potential dangers is growing at quite the rate it should be.
That's fantastic, but it's going to take a lot of persuasion to get me to go near an MRI willingly after seeing its effect on nearby hospital equipment. You're only as safe as the stupidest person in the room.
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I hope you don't have to say this very often.
And you're still going to have trouble finding a place to park.
Worse, the authorities could probably use an ion as a "boot."
Looks like we can evolve all we want...it's not necesarily going to make us smarter. Certainly not by 2008.
Then we might as well just start dumping coffee in the water supply. Works for me. And if it doesn't enhance intelligence -- and I've always suspected in my own informal studies it does -- then at least we can all be stupid faster.
And sorry for not making it through TFA. Raiders/Patriots. Priorities, you know.
Any chance of speeding up the process before the 2008 elections?
/in Kansas, so it might not even apply, anyhow
You haven't been watching NBC, have you?
They run a little TV network called FOX (obFirefly lament)....
BTW, (totally off topic) Ever read Snowcrash?
Not yet -- what am I missing?
Very good points -- and thanks for the Wiki links to the other posters. Why I forgot my umbilical to knowledge, the Wiki, I do not know. (Like the lack of DRM -- my default state is paranoid, and I see no reason to change it.)
Yeah, I should use a Microsoft beta file system, because my files and documents aren't in enough danger as it is....
...aaaand I just bluescreened my brain.
Seriously, is there an upside to this system to the casual-to-serious user? Or is it mostly a DRM-delivery platform? I read TFAs, but this sentence hurt me: "(Integrated data initiative is a term used to refer to a group of technologies whose goal is to provide better integration for data..."
market place for the Dave Winer's of this world, its just that their audience
If less geek blogging means fewer misused apostrophes, I'm all for it.
Seems this fellow Chris Doyle built a model of Serenity from the upcoming movie
There's a key word missing from this sentence that might put it into a clearer perspective, and that word is Lego. That said, the Lego Wash is adorable.
You could probably count the number of recorded fatal accidents in the history of MRI on one hand and how many people have had the procedure?
Oh, it's not an entirely rational fear at all. That's the way fear acts. And you're right about the fatalities -- I know of only five myself. But the NY Times (no reg? sweet) also points out that incidents tend to be underreported, with the FDA database of MRI accidents only being updated if the scanner itself is damaged. I agree it's wondrous, if not miraculous technology and its benefit is hard to sufficiently encapsulate. But I'm not sure that awareness of its safety procedures and potential dangers is growing at quite the rate it should be.
That's fantastic, but it's going to take a lot of persuasion to get me to go near an MRI willingly after seeing its effect on nearby hospital equipment. You're only as safe as the stupidest person in the room.
S'okay, mistakes happen -- thanks for the insight.
(But you realize if it'd been a feet/meters error, you never would've heard the end of it....)