I have a HDTV I paid big money for, and I also have Charter cable. I have just a basic package, but my local stations are HD through Charter. I cannot receive OTA, due to a large mountain blocking the signal between me and the tower, even though I am 20mi from the towers, so cable is my only option to watch local programming.
I do not have a descrambler box, and my local Charter office told me that starting in February, I will have to rent a cable tuner box from them to continue receiving my local channels in HD, for they will be scrambling all local HD stations effective then. In addition to that, I will also have to pay an additional fee to have those channels in HD, on top of renting their damn box.
A friend of mine who lives in an area where he can receive OTA also has Charter. He and I both have the same TV. He showed me how different OTA looks verses Charter's HD signal of the local stations. He also showed me how the signal looks when the cable is connected straight to the TV (not using Charter's tuner box). In a nut shell, the Charter HD signal from their tuner box blows goats in picture quality. He has tried everything he could to improve the picture quality when the signal comes from the tuner box (swapping boxes, ect) and nothing helps. I asked my local office if I could just rent or buy a pass-through box only so I could use the tuner on my TV come February, rather than have their tuner box. I was told that will never be an option. I will be forced to rent their tuner box, and pay an additional fee just to see my local stations in HD.
I certainly hope you are not leaving the students out of the loop, for they are your customers after all. Let them know what is on the table and discuss it with them. Their input could be valuable in many unseen ways.
The university I am attending here in the US is using gmail, but it is renamed and using a.edu address. I like it much better than other accounts I have had from other providers (Yahoo, MS, ect). It is much easier to filter/manipulate/read than the others, and also better at filtering spam. 99.9% of the spam I have gotten is from the school and always labeled "IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT" in the subject (I'm looking at YOU, ETSU, for spamming crap that is not important to students). Anything with those two words goes straight to the shit pile...
...and I feel your pain when it comes to paying tax on items ordered online. I have built several systems through the years, and I, like you, am building another one now to replace my old P4. After you have done your research and decided what you want, here are some places to compare prices which will not charge you tax when shipped to TN:
Newegg is great for comparing parts and reading detailed specs/reviews, but the tax and shipping generally lead to the parts being more expensive than if they were ordered elsewhere.
I suspect you haven't been around "the internet" very much. You're honestly trying to say craigslist is as seedy as illegal drug sellers, offshore quasi-legal casino's, websites selling pirated software, malware/adware "free" software sites, or any number of other seedy places I haven't listed?
You have not looked on Craigslist lately, have you. Everything you cited can be found there (in my area anyway), including guns, drugs, pirated software, hookers, ect... I found a gun for sale a few days ago, which is prohibited. I flagged it as well as reported it to abuse and it is still there. Yes, it has turned into a seedy place IMHO.
The red cross is the swiss flag inverted. The Red Cross founder was swiss. You are only partially correct. The Red Cross flag is an inverted Swiss flag, but the founder (Clara Barton, a civil war nurse), was born in Massachusetts. I have worked as an executive at a local chapter, as well as having been a volunteer for many years, so I do know what I'm talking about. You should have never been modded informative.
...is that the RIAA lawyers know that their cash cow is about to go poof very soon. Therefore, they are getting all the milk they can from the cow before it leaves the barn.
I have used BB, WebCT, and now D2L, which is the mandatory software for "optional" use by the instructors from my understanding at all TBR (Tennessee Board of Regents) schools. BB and WebCT was bad from a teacher and a student point of view. When we were switched to D2L, I really found out what bad is. It sucks so hard my eyes roll back in my head every time I have to use it. The teachers say they hate it more than BB. I know I do, for I have had to retake online tests that it "lost" somehow (screenshots saved my butt), it does not always show sections for classes you are enrolled into (the IT guys and instructors are dumbfounded as to why myself and others have this issue), and it has locked out instructors as well as lost turned in assignments. The first 2 weeks of school nobody could even log into it. We were told it was a D2L issue, and nothing more. I have no clue if it was software or hardware related, but the same thing happens at the beginning of every semester since we started using D2L last semester.
Many instructors at my school said to hell with it and email to us the things we need rather than attempting to post it for us to download. Everyone hates it for it is simply not reliable. I wish my school would use the internal resources they have to code something better based on open source software. Sadly, they prefer to spend our (student) monies on crap and raise tuition rather than be practical and use the knowledge and resources already available to them. It is very frustrating.
Whomever decided to use this software at TN universities has an occular rectism (asshole nerve connected to the eyeball nerve giving a shitty outlook on life) IMHO. It sure was a bad decision I think. BB and D2L both do not come close to what they need to be. Both options are simply a way to milk the institutions and students of money. I have nothing against someone trying to make a buck, don't get me wrong, but at least have a quality product for the high cost involved, not beta software. The quality to price ratio here is skewed badly it seems.
From a summary I read earlier from another source:
* All voting systems made by Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), both paper-based optical-scan and DREs, were completely decertified. Their op-scan systems tested, according to Coffman, "both failed because of an inability to determine if the devices work correctly and an inability to complete the testing threshold of 10,000 ballots due to vendor programming errors." Their ubiqutous, and fatally flawed iVotronic DRE system "failed because it is easily disabled by voters activating the device interface, and the system lacks an audit trail to detect security violations."
* Paper-based optical-scan systems made by Sequoia Voting Systems were conditionally certified, while their DRE systems were completely decertified for use, as they "failed due to a variety of security risk factors, including that the system is not password protected, has exposed controls potentially giving voters unauthorized access, and lacks an audit trail to detect security violations."
* Paper-based optical-scan systems made by Hart Intercivic were decertified "because test results showed that they could not accurately count ballots"(!), while their DRE voting system was conditionally certified.
* And finally, both optical-scan and DRE voting systems made by Diebold/Premier were conditionally certified for use in Colorado.
...can be a good thing, but this really concerns me. I'm all for changing with the times, don't get me wrong. I just feel that electronic and software items which play such a critical role in the much corrupt political system we have today do need more oversight from public entities, not private companies or political agencies. I feel we are far from where we need to be for electronic voting in the US to be reliable or trustworthy. I do have hope that it can be an option in the future though.
I opt to kill a few trees to retain the paper method for now. I was forced to use an electronic voting machine (Diebold) in my district during the last local election in my state. I will not be using one regardless come the next election. Anyone can manipulate the machine behind the privacy fence surrounding the machine, without anyone knowing about it. Who is to say it cannot be tampered with even before the people are given access to the machine to cast their vote. I do not feel comfortable using an electronic voting device at this time.
I am almost 100% convinced that major elections do not matter anymore in this country in this day and age. The rich, and the corrupt have a strangle hold on our government and the media. Just look at the biased mass media coverage that is happening today. It is as if the media has already made the decisions for us about the elections, and those who own the media have very powerful ties to the government. There are no real debates between candidates, but they are still called debates. There are no tough questions, and there are no truthful straight forward consistent answers but from a couple of candidates, which are silenced and kept from the publics knowledge by powerful people whom are in control. I do have some hope, but it is fading fast.
I honestly feel that there will be another civil war in this country if things continue the way they are. It will not be the Whites against the Blacks, against the Hispanics, etc... It will be the poor against the rich. You know where the corporations and the corrupt politicians will stand when this happens. Change takes ballots or bullets. Sooner or later people will be tired of trying to make change peacefully with ballots.
It may not happen in my lifetime, but I think it will happen sooner than anyone thinks if the current path is followed. All it will take is someone high up in the military to finally get fed up with the corruption to take the action of cleaning house. We have already seen first hand the dissent in the military ranks all the way to the top. Several generals have peacefully resigned/retired and spoken in protest to the insane, illogical decisions made by the current administration and the path it has taken us down. Sooner or later someone with a bigger set of balls will do something about it if this continues.
It would not be a good thing to have this happen, but if things continue the way they are I would sadly be in support of it. It would be a rough road, but change is needed in a bad way. We are currently on a path of assured economic destruction, which will have effects far and wide around the world. We should learn from the past history of other, once large and powerful Republics. It seems to me that we are doomed to repeat history unless there is change.
I hold the hope though, that this vast information highway called the internet will tip the field in the favor of the people in due time. The option to see and read more news from many sources, rather than the few sources force fed to the masses controlled by the powerful and corrupt few. The internet has broadened my view of things. This too may not happen in my lifetime, but I hold hope that it will foster a peaceful change in time.
I hope for a peaceful change, but I am very afraid of what could and might happen.
I really do not think their apps will be integrated into phones sold in the US for the major carriers. The manufacturers will have it in the original OS install of the phone probably, but let us not forget that when US carriers purchase the phones to sell for their network, they tend to heavily modify the phones OS. Generally all useful features installed on a phone that are free to use are disabled, or erased (Motorola phones, and Verizon policies come to mind). The US carriers want you to pay them more money, when it comes to having something useful (fully functional Bluetooth, easy transfer of files, ect). They like playing the "nickel and dime you to death" game. This is why phone modding is so popular. People want the functionality back in the phones, that the carriers removed.
In European markets, as well as others outside of North America, however, might see a great benefit here.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is not the ARC (American Red Cross). The ICRC decides what resources they use and from where when it comes to operations outside of the US, so it may not involve the ARC at all, for they are separate entities. Most people make the mistake of lumping them all together as the "Red Cross" which is a mistake. The American media is partially to blame for the common misconception as well as poor PR on the part of the ARC. This explains your experience.
FYI, the branch of the Red Cross which handles blood products is a for profit organization. It is a totally separate entity from the non-proft branch. The blood products division makes very little money though. The blood products branch MUST make money to do what they do, for processing blood products is quite expensive, and heavily regulated by the FDA. Donating the blood does indeed lower the cost of the blood products in the end, albeit slightly.
Also, the Red Cross has/does proactively protected their trademark/copyright of the cross. All chapters/branches must use a very specific color of red when using the symbol for official purposes. Many organizations/companies sidestep the licensing of the symbol by using a different color or shade of red. Sounds silly I know, but I have seen this first hand.
Disclosure: I have worked in the past as an executive in a small chapter of the Red Cross, and I am and always have been and will be a volunteer.
They already do. I have 5 "home shopping" type channels, 4 religious based channels, and 10 "sports" channels I am forced to pay for but never watch. Charter calls it expanded basic in my area, and it costs me $56 a month. Just so I could History and Discovery channels. On top of that, I have 8 local channels, which are OTA (free to pick up with an aerial) that I am forced to pay for and forced to have in the package. I call it rape.
I feel that they are a bit myopic here. Nice that they are trying to innovate, but what if some family likes to watch several movies in a month. HD movies will not be small files by any means, and will be a natural progression of the service I'm sure even though the article does not specifically state that they will be offering HD content. What if you download/watch several movies which you legally paid for and then get your cable cut off by companies like Comcast for exceeding their "magical" and hidden data transfer limit.
Even if they offer regular DVD content (not HD) they will more than likely compress the files to the point to where it is degraded and is not the same quality of a DVD I can rent for $3 at the local rental store. Why would I pay more for less quality? If they do feed the actual DVD files (dual layer, not compressed like a file you might get from illegal p2p) that goes back to the problem of massive files being transfered over your internet connection and the risk of getting cut off.
This service will be dipping into the pay-per-view funds of some cable companies giving them even more incentive to drop you from their service. They want your money and will not let someone else take it from you easily. Unless the cable companies and/or ISP's get a slice of the pie, I do not see this happening. Greed kills innovation more often than poor planning from a technical standpoint.
...contribute more money towards political influence, never expect any change. Money buys you anything in the political arena.
I'm not trying to be a troll, just factual as to how it works here in the US as well as many other places around the world. I bet I just flushed all my karma with this comment anyway, but it needed to be said.
I teach CPR instructors for the layperson as well as for professionals. Yes, I do work in emergency medicine. Here is my take on the findings and from my experience.
First responders (people first on the scene, not medical professionals) historically tend to do a very poor job of ventilating a patient. Often times this renders the rescue breathing almost useless. This has been known about and debated for many years. The "something is better than nothing" attitude as prevailed through the years, even though the majority of the time "nothing" is exactly what the patient gets in terms of oxygen. They often also tend to perform very poor quality CPR compressions (not deep enough, not fast enough).
You are breathing 21% oxygen now. When you exhale into an individual, they are not receiving 21% for part of it was used by the rescuer. The patient is only receiving 16% oxygen. This is a drastic reduction, but it is far better than nothing.
When any patient is determined to not be breathing, there are 3 things a rescuer must remember:
ABC
Airway
It the airway is not clear and straight, no oxygen can get into the lungs.
Breathing
If a person is not breathing, you MUST breath for them or their heart will stop due to lack of oxygen.
Circulation
If a pulse is not detected, you must do proper CPR to circulate oxygenated blood.
These must be maintained in the order ABC. Maintaining circulation when there is no breathing or oxygen is bad.
CPR buys time until properly trained medical personnel arrive. It will not get the heart starting to beat again. You are simply trying to circulate oxygenated blood since the body is not capable of doing that on its own. When there is no pulse in the early stage of a heart attack you see, generally the heart is in an abnormal, but regular rhythm most of the time, but not always. It is basically beating so fast that it cannot circulate blood, and the rhythm at some point becomes very irregular. Defibrillation and cardiac drugs are needed for the heart to return to a normal rhythm. If there is electrical activity still in the heart there is a significantly greater chance of resuscitation. When the heart is in asystole, there is no electrical signal and it is game over. Circulating oxygen is key to survival.
It is also a known fact that most people who take a CPR class forget more than half of what they were taught the day before. As more time elapses, even more is forgotten. If I were having a heart attack, I would prefer that someone tried to give me rescue breaths, even though there is a chance they will do it wrong. It is better to have oxygenated blood circulated than deoxygenated blood. This is just my opinion.
...is still a turd. All you can do is knock the rough edges off of it. A dual format player will decide nothing. Just a different brand/type of toilet paper.
...changing the time slot like they did is a death sentence for the show, IMHO. Very sad, for it is one of the best sci-fi shows currently aired that is done well. We all know that studio executives have always lacked intelligence anyway, so it was expected.
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I have a HDTV I paid big money for, and I also have Charter cable. I have just a basic package, but my local stations are HD through Charter. I cannot receive OTA, due to a large mountain blocking the signal between me and the tower, even though I am 20mi from the towers, so cable is my only option to watch local programming.
I do not have a descrambler box, and my local Charter office told me that starting in February, I will have to rent a cable tuner box from them to continue receiving my local channels in HD, for they will be scrambling all local HD stations effective then. In addition to that, I will also have to pay an additional fee to have those channels in HD, on top of renting their damn box.
A friend of mine who lives in an area where he can receive OTA also has Charter. He and I both have the same TV. He showed me how different OTA looks verses Charter's HD signal of the local stations. He also showed me how the signal looks when the cable is connected straight to the TV (not using Charter's tuner box). In a nut shell, the Charter HD signal from their tuner box blows goats in picture quality. He has tried everything he could to improve the picture quality when the signal comes from the tuner box (swapping boxes, ect) and nothing helps. I asked my local office if I could just rent or buy a pass-through box only so I could use the tuner on my TV come February, rather than have their tuner box. I was told that will never be an option. I will be forced to rent their tuner box, and pay an additional fee just to see my local stations in HD.
I see satellite TV in my near future.
I certainly hope you are not leaving the students out of the loop, for they are your customers after all. Let them know what is on the table and discuss it with them. Their input could be valuable in many unseen ways.
The university I am attending here in the US is using gmail, but it is renamed and using a .edu address. I like it much better than other accounts I have had from other providers (Yahoo, MS, ect). It is much easier to filter/manipulate/read than the others, and also better at filtering spam. 99.9% of the spam I have gotten is from the school and always labeled "IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT" in the subject (I'm looking at YOU, ETSU, for spamming crap that is not important to students). Anything with those two words goes straight to the shit pile...
...and I feel your pain when it comes to paying tax on items ordered online. I have built several systems through the years, and I, like you, am building another one now to replace my old P4. After you have done your research and decided what you want, here are some places to compare prices which will not charge you tax when shipped to TN:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp
http://www.directron.com/
http://www.ewiz.com/index.php
For specialty items, like heat sinks, I sometimes buy here:
http://www.frozencpu.com/index.html?id=wdw9Exum
Above all though, compare prices using these useful sites, for you may find the same part elsewhere even cheaper:
http://www.pricewatch.com/
http://www.google.com/products
Newegg is great for comparing parts and reading detailed specs/reviews, but the tax and shipping generally lead to the parts being more expensive than if they were ordered elsewhere.
I suspect you haven't been around "the internet" very much. You're honestly trying to say craigslist is as seedy as illegal drug sellers, offshore quasi-legal casino's, websites selling pirated software, malware/adware "free" software sites, or any number of other seedy places I haven't listed?
You have not looked on Craigslist lately, have you. Everything you cited can be found there (in my area anyway), including guns, drugs, pirated software, hookers, ect... I found a gun for sale a few days ago, which is prohibited. I flagged it as well as reported it to abuse and it is still there. Yes, it has turned into a seedy place IMHO.
...that they will never find him at 192.168.2.1 for sure.
...is that the RIAA lawyers know that their cash cow is about to go poof very soon. Therefore, they are getting all the milk they can from the cow before it leaves the barn.
I have used BB, WebCT, and now D2L, which is the mandatory software for "optional" use by the instructors from my understanding at all TBR (Tennessee Board of Regents) schools. BB and WebCT was bad from a teacher and a student point of view. When we were switched to D2L, I really found out what bad is. It sucks so hard my eyes roll back in my head every time I have to use it. The teachers say they hate it more than BB. I know I do, for I have had to retake online tests that it "lost" somehow (screenshots saved my butt), it does not always show sections for classes you are enrolled into (the IT guys and instructors are dumbfounded as to why myself and others have this issue), and it has locked out instructors as well as lost turned in assignments. The first 2 weeks of school nobody could even log into it. We were told it was a D2L issue, and nothing more. I have no clue if it was software or hardware related, but the same thing happens at the beginning of every semester since we started using D2L last semester.
Many instructors at my school said to hell with it and email to us the things we need rather than attempting to post it for us to download. Everyone hates it for it is simply not reliable. I wish my school would use the internal resources they have to code something better based on open source software. Sadly, they prefer to spend our (student) monies on crap and raise tuition rather than be practical and use the knowledge and resources already available to them. It is very frustrating.
Whomever decided to use this software at TN universities has an occular rectism (asshole nerve connected to the eyeball nerve giving a shitty outlook on life) IMHO. It sure was a bad decision I think. BB and D2L both do not come close to what they need to be. Both options are simply a way to milk the institutions and students of money. I have nothing against someone trying to make a buck, don't get me wrong, but at least have a quality product for the high cost involved, not beta software. The quality to price ratio here is skewed badly it seems.
Here is the source, but I do not know the accuracy of it: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5451
I opt to kill a few trees to retain the paper method for now. I was forced to use an electronic voting machine (Diebold) in my district during the last local election in my state. I will not be using one regardless come the next election. Anyone can manipulate the machine behind the privacy fence surrounding the machine, without anyone knowing about it. Who is to say it cannot be tampered with even before the people are given access to the machine to cast their vote. I do not feel comfortable using an electronic voting device at this time.
I am almost 100% convinced that major elections do not matter anymore in this country in this day and age. The rich, and the corrupt have a strangle hold on our government and the media. Just look at the biased mass media coverage that is happening today. It is as if the media has already made the decisions for us about the elections, and those who own the media have very powerful ties to the government. There are no real debates between candidates, but they are still called debates. There are no tough questions, and there are no truthful straight forward consistent answers but from a couple of candidates, which are silenced and kept from the publics knowledge by powerful people whom are in control. I do have some hope, but it is fading fast.
I honestly feel that there will be another civil war in this country if things continue the way they are. It will not be the Whites against the Blacks, against the Hispanics, etc... It will be the poor against the rich. You know where the corporations and the corrupt politicians will stand when this happens. Change takes ballots or bullets. Sooner or later people will be tired of trying to make change peacefully with ballots.
It may not happen in my lifetime, but I think it will happen sooner than anyone thinks if the current path is followed. All it will take is someone high up in the military to finally get fed up with the corruption to take the action of cleaning house. We have already seen first hand the dissent in the military ranks all the way to the top. Several generals have peacefully resigned/retired and spoken in protest to the insane, illogical decisions made by the current administration and the path it has taken us down. Sooner or later someone with a bigger set of balls will do something about it if this continues.
It would not be a good thing to have this happen, but if things continue the way they are I would sadly be in support of it. It would be a rough road, but change is needed in a bad way. We are currently on a path of assured economic destruction, which will have effects far and wide around the world. We should learn from the past history of other, once large and powerful Republics. It seems to me that we are doomed to repeat history unless there is change.
I hold the hope though, that this vast information highway called the internet will tip the field in the favor of the people in due time. The option to see and read more news from many sources, rather than the few sources force fed to the masses controlled by the powerful and corrupt few. The internet has broadened my view of things. This too may not happen in my lifetime, but I hold hope that it will foster a peaceful change in time.
I hope for a peaceful change, but I am very afraid of what could and might happen.
I really do not think their apps will be integrated into phones sold in the US for the major carriers. The manufacturers will have it in the original OS install of the phone probably, but let us not forget that when US carriers purchase the phones to sell for their network, they tend to heavily modify the phones OS. Generally all useful features installed on a phone that are free to use are disabled, or erased (Motorola phones, and Verizon policies come to mind). The US carriers want you to pay them more money, when it comes to having something useful (fully functional Bluetooth, easy transfer of files, ect). They like playing the "nickel and dime you to death" game. This is why phone modding is so popular. People want the functionality back in the phones, that the carriers removed.
In European markets, as well as others outside of North America, however, might see a great benefit here.
The sharks will be happy.
...has gone to the birds.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is not the ARC (American Red Cross). The ICRC decides what resources they use and from where when it comes to operations outside of the US, so it may not involve the ARC at all, for they are separate entities. Most people make the mistake of lumping them all together as the "Red Cross" which is a mistake. The American media is partially to blame for the common misconception as well as poor PR on the part of the ARC. This explains your experience.
FYI, the branch of the Red Cross which handles blood products is a for profit organization. It is a totally separate entity from the non-proft branch. The blood products division makes very little money though. The blood products branch MUST make money to do what they do, for processing blood products is quite expensive, and heavily regulated by the FDA. Donating the blood does indeed lower the cost of the blood products in the end, albeit slightly.
Also, the Red Cross has/does proactively protected their trademark/copyright of the cross. All chapters/branches must use a very specific color of red when using the symbol for official purposes. Many organizations/companies sidestep the licensing of the symbol by using a different color or shade of red. Sounds silly I know, but I have seen this first hand.
Disclosure: I have worked in the past as an executive in a small chapter of the Red Cross, and I am and always have been and will be a volunteer.
They already do. I have 5 "home shopping" type channels, 4 religious based channels, and 10 "sports" channels I am forced to pay for but never watch. Charter calls it expanded basic in my area, and it costs me $56 a month. Just so I could History and Discovery channels. On top of that, I have 8 local channels, which are OTA (free to pick up with an aerial) that I am forced to pay for and forced to have in the package. I call it rape.
Maybe now they can figure out a way to apply this to fix my wife. She is a frigid thing in many ways...
I feel that they are a bit myopic here. Nice that they are trying to innovate, but what if some family likes to watch several movies in a month. HD movies will not be small files by any means, and will be a natural progression of the service I'm sure even though the article does not specifically state that they will be offering HD content. What if you download/watch several movies which you legally paid for and then get your cable cut off by companies like Comcast for exceeding their "magical" and hidden data transfer limit.
Even if they offer regular DVD content (not HD) they will more than likely compress the files to the point to where it is degraded and is not the same quality of a DVD I can rent for $3 at the local rental store. Why would I pay more for less quality? If they do feed the actual DVD files (dual layer, not compressed like a file you might get from illegal p2p) that goes back to the problem of massive files being transfered over your internet connection and the risk of getting cut off.
This service will be dipping into the pay-per-view funds of some cable companies giving them even more incentive to drop you from their service. They want your money and will not let someone else take it from you easily. Unless the cable companies and/or ISP's get a slice of the pie, I do not see this happening. Greed kills innovation more often than poor planning from a technical standpoint.
...contribute more money towards political influence, never expect any change. Money buys you anything in the political arena.
I'm not trying to be a troll, just factual as to how it works here in the US as well as many other places around the world. I bet I just flushed all my karma with this comment anyway, but it needed to be said.I teach CPR instructors for the layperson as well as for professionals. Yes, I do work in emergency medicine. Here is my take on the findings and from my experience.
First responders (people first on the scene, not medical professionals) historically tend to do a very poor job of ventilating a patient. Often times this renders the rescue breathing almost useless. This has been known about and debated for many years. The "something is better than nothing" attitude as prevailed through the years, even though the majority of the time "nothing" is exactly what the patient gets in terms of oxygen. They often also tend to perform very poor quality CPR compressions (not deep enough, not fast enough).
You are breathing 21% oxygen now. When you exhale into an individual, they are not receiving 21% for part of it was used by the rescuer. The patient is only receiving 16% oxygen. This is a drastic reduction, but it is far better than nothing.
When any patient is determined to not be breathing, there are 3 things a rescuer must remember:
ABC
Airway
It the airway is not clear and straight, no oxygen can get into the lungs.
Breathing
If a person is not breathing, you MUST breath for them or their heart will stop due to lack of oxygen.
Circulation
If a pulse is not detected, you must do proper CPR to circulate oxygenated blood.
These must be maintained in the order ABC. Maintaining circulation when there is no breathing or oxygen is bad.
CPR buys time until properly trained medical personnel arrive. It will not get the heart starting to beat again. You are simply trying to circulate oxygenated blood since the body is not capable of doing that on its own. When there is no pulse in the early stage of a heart attack you see, generally the heart is in an abnormal, but regular rhythm most of the time, but not always. It is basically beating so fast that it cannot circulate blood, and the rhythm at some point becomes very irregular. Defibrillation and cardiac drugs are needed for the heart to return to a normal rhythm. If there is electrical activity still in the heart there is a significantly greater chance of resuscitation. When the heart is in asystole, there is no electrical signal and it is game over. Circulating oxygen is key to survival.
It is also a known fact that most people who take a CPR class forget more than half of what they were taught the day before. As more time elapses, even more is forgotten. If I were having a heart attack, I would prefer that someone tried to give me rescue breaths, even though there is a chance they will do it wrong. It is better to have oxygenated blood circulated than deoxygenated blood. This is just my opinion.
Does this mean that the next time someone kicks me in the nads all I need are earplugs for the pain to go away?
I don't think I will test that theory, I'll let someone else do it.
...is still a turd. All you can do is knock the rough edges off of it. A dual format player will decide nothing. Just a different brand/type of toilet paper.
...I see ALOT of things spinning when I get sloshed.
...changing the time slot like they did is a death sentence for the show, IMHO. Very sad, for it is one of the best sci-fi shows currently aired that is done well. We all know that studio executives have always lacked intelligence anyway, so it was expected.
... and says "Can I see you Real... buffer...buffer...buffer...buffer...buffer... ID please?"