Wow... As a med school student, you should know that DM II symptomatically is excessive or low glucose in the body. Hence the reason for testing using blood. DKA is primarily keytones (sp?) in the urine. The only reason I know this is d/t Type 1 myself. All hospital testing I've seen and been part of is blood, no urine.
Now, in all honesty, I'm not sure what the testing differences is for DM Type 2, so I could be very off. Most of my own patients use blood for testing as well. I think the only reason for urine testing is for very excessive glucose. We're talking 1000+ BG. Once DKA sets in, you can test urine for those keytones to determine BG. The good news is that I'll be the first to say that I could be wrong.
So what I'm gathering from you is that the moral decline of the US is due to a lack of religious communities? I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you there, and point out Westboro as well as anti-abortion protesters. I will agree that there are a number of good people in the world attempting to good deeds, but there are more than enough idiots with "God Hates Fags" posters absolutely destroying our ability to communicate effectively. Yes, while some atheists detest religious organizations, there are a greater number that simply don't care. They just don't feel a need to believe in some arbitrary Judeo-Christian lifestyle.
As an aside, I've seen plenty of Radicals around the world. In my opinion, the original Bill of Rights got things right the first time around. You believe in whatever invisible sky man you want, I'll take mine, and we'll go about our merry way. Blaming a decline of morals around a lack of religious communities, honestly, reeks of religious superiority. You take your sky man, and leave me alone. I'm a good enough person without religion, and I'll continue to be that way despite of your mongering for more religion.
Here's the thing: China has become very well known for making deals to get modern and/or cutting edge technology without having to do the R&D. That is a boon for American companies for short term profits. It also significantly ups the ante for competition within the Chinese market. The problem that I see for China is that without having to do the R&D, they get the current tech, understand it, maybe make some improvements to that tech. However, I'm not sure if China has the capability to keep up with other global companies, companies that are investing for future technologies. If China doesn't steal those plans, they'll start to fall behind again, which creates a nice purchasing loop for those global companies. Those Chinese companies may be able to make and improve these commercial airliners, making them cheaper than anyone else, but they won't have the drop on the next new thing, which most global companies are looking for and are investing in.
I was born and raised in Tucson, this type of crime rarely happens. Most people usually hear about crime in Phoenix.
Anyways, appears there were multiple suspects in the shooting. 4+ people dead, local sheriff reports that Giffords was gravely wounded, some reports that she's dead, others that she's in surgery. Local newspaper has story up now, http://tucsoncitizen.com/mark-evans/archives/389
No matter what your political affiliation, murder is still murder. I've heard one report that Giffords was shot point-blank in the head. I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war...
Agreed there, there's 2 different re-directs and then a file download. I understand how people still fall for this, but it still amazes me that people go thru all of that still.
Are you hiring? Because you definitely wouldn't be the first boss that I got into a spat with, and if you can actually respect my ability to do a job, that's a serious thumbs up from me.
The actual correct destruction method is as follows:
1. For floppy disks, remove the plastic covering and shred the disk. It's highly recommended that you use the bulk eraser prior to shredding the disk.
2. For hard drives, bulk eraser multiple times, followed by destruction of the drive. It's been a while since I saw the video, but literally tearing the drive apart is required.
FWIW, I was never in the DoD, I did some short contractor work and was required to watch a video on the proper discard of storage devices. It was a really bad imitation of Bill Nye for DoD types.
This is just another item in a long list of stuff that I'm happy to be rid of. Just canceled my cable TV, and no intention of watching shows anymore. I'd rather buy DVDs/BluRay or rent new stuff from Netflix, etc.
I can say that I'm quite happy to get rid of the cable box. I've still got broadband, and that's all I'll need.
I disagree, and here's why: with all that Microsoft knowledge, FOSS can't take them. There's no way to determine whether code that came out of the head of Microsoft engineer is free from Microsoft patents. That engineer may know enough of the closed source code to keep that out of FOSS, but there's still no guarantees. You really want to hire that engineer?
I can do without everything except Spike and Comedy Central. The rest of it can burn in the same spot in hell from where it spawned. I still catch the occasional MMA fight on Spike, and late night stand up on Comedy Central.
Time to RTFA. It's a piece of equipment made by his company, that either he didn't secure, or didn't bug test for. Again, no sympathy for him, he screwed up and now stands to lose a lot of money because of that failure.
Sorry, but no sympathy for this guy. It's his company's equipment which was hacked. His telecom company isn't responsible for his equipment, and if they're nice, they'll alert him to the calls. They make money when those calls are made, and why should they be responsible for alerting a customer who's making phone calls. Yes, the calls are going to Bulgaria, but that doesn't mean a telco should alert every person when they make a phone call overseas.
Just because you get served with a subpoena, doesn't mean that you have to immediately comply with it. In this case, the DD guy wants the names of the "intar-web posters". The newspaper place says fuck you, their opinion and right to post opinion is covered under the first amendment. Somehow, this one will end up far beyond just the Maryland SC.
True, we are subject to psychological trickery. But the test are pretty conclusive, as I actually RTFA. If a human brain can perceive an artificial body as it's own in the psychological and physiological sense, it gives researchers a great deal of more research to do. This allows us to "place" a human brain inside an artificial body and still retain full abilities without major psychological damage. That's a serious trick to perform, as once we lose that ownership of the body, behavior can be significantly modified.
I would agree with you that you can acquire wealth from other means, but even wealth is a finite resource, we can only print so much money. Additionally, said wealth is usually has a basis in real world resources. A real estate magnate can't create more real estate, they can only purchase the real estate of others. In that sense, death is one of but a very few means to acquire more real estate.
If I did have that information, it's about guaranteed that the doctor has that information too. After all, that's what I pay him to do, keep up-to-date on medical research to help me with a disease. Doctor/pharmacists are required to complete continuing education courses so that they have the latest information available. And they also have just as much access to WebMD as me, so no excuses there either.
Actually, I find this very disturbing. Med students are in class for learning this stuff, and being objective about diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Having Joe Six Pack figure out he has some acute disease that affects less that 1 percent of the world's population after reading about it online bothers me. Said person then shows up at the doctor's office with his "evidence" of the disease makes me wait an extra hour at the office for a simple check up.
OK, so now we have a word that is the same as another, with a slightly different definition. Instead of people freaking out about imagined illnesses, now they have the ability to get online and find other illnesses that they didn't realize they had... Fantastic. Irritating doesn't even begin to describe my feeling about this one.
I would like to respectfully disagree on the point of 1. No law against. If that were true, then she wouldn't be convicted of 3 misdemeanor crimes. She was found guilty in a court of law by a group of her peers. And in my opinion, she deserves every hour of jail time she gets. She's a fucking 47 year old woman who engaged in bullying a 13 year old girl. All of this over the fact that she believed that said girl was basically talking shit about her daughter, which proved to be false. So yes, she's guilty and I hope she rots in jail for it.
Mod parent and GP up!! Parent has my exact opinion. Any woman willing to go to this length for a confrontation with a 13 year old girl and then decides to engage in cyberbullying deserves some prison time.
One answer... Bwahahahah!!! Half a rugby team paralyzed? That's seriously a joke. NFL players are over-pampered, overpaid wimps compared to the rest of the world. It's one of the few sports that somehow manages to encourage overweight athletes. Take a look at those guts and tell me again that they're in shape.
And yes, I am American, I played actual football, aka soccer. It has just as much physical contact, significantly more demanding on the body, and requires a huge amount of stamina. Do me a favor, go run for 45 minutes, take a 10 minute, and run for another 45 minutes. I'd love to see those NFL athletes have heart attacks over that one...
Actually, I do have a bit of experience. Grandfather died about a month ago, and uncle died about a week before that. It's been a rough year for the family, so the geek had to help.;)
Make sure the survivor leaves a link to the obituary for the local paper, you'd have to go thru too much trouble to fake that one. At least that's what I'd do.
I don't have such a list. I probably have about 10 different passwords that I use. While this is obviously not the norm, I also keep a password app on my home machine, Password Safe. Any survivor will need a single password to access that database, and then alert everyone in those sites. Since the app uses a single file, put that on a USB stick, hell just name the file with the password.
OTOH, I have very few online contacts, so notifying those people becomes less of a hassle. Besides, how many of those people are going to show up to my funeral anyways?
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Wow... As a med school student, you should know that DM II symptomatically is excessive or low glucose in the body. Hence the reason for testing using blood. DKA is primarily keytones (sp?) in the urine. The only reason I know this is d/t Type 1 myself. All hospital testing I've seen and been part of is blood, no urine.
Now, in all honesty, I'm not sure what the testing differences is for DM Type 2, so I could be very off. Most of my own patients use blood for testing as well. I think the only reason for urine testing is for very excessive glucose. We're talking 1000+ BG. Once DKA sets in, you can test urine for those keytones to determine BG. The good news is that I'll be the first to say that I could be wrong.
So what I'm gathering from you is that the moral decline of the US is due to a lack of religious communities? I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you there, and point out Westboro as well as anti-abortion protesters. I will agree that there are a number of good people in the world attempting to good deeds, but there are more than enough idiots with "God Hates Fags" posters absolutely destroying our ability to communicate effectively. Yes, while some atheists detest religious organizations, there are a greater number that simply don't care. They just don't feel a need to believe in some arbitrary Judeo-Christian lifestyle.
As an aside, I've seen plenty of Radicals around the world. In my opinion, the original Bill of Rights got things right the first time around. You believe in whatever invisible sky man you want, I'll take mine, and we'll go about our merry way. Blaming a decline of morals around a lack of religious communities, honestly, reeks of religious superiority. You take your sky man, and leave me alone. I'm a good enough person without religion, and I'll continue to be that way despite of your mongering for more religion.
Here's the thing: China has become very well known for making deals to get modern and/or cutting edge technology without having to do the R&D. That is a boon for American companies for short term profits. It also significantly ups the ante for competition within the Chinese market.
The problem that I see for China is that without having to do the R&D, they get the current tech, understand it, maybe make some improvements to that tech. However, I'm not sure if China has the capability to keep up with other global companies, companies that are investing for future technologies. If China doesn't steal those plans, they'll start to fall behind again, which creates a nice purchasing loop for those global companies.
Those Chinese companies may be able to make and improve these commercial airliners, making them cheaper than anyone else, but they won't have the drop on the next new thing, which most global companies are looking for and are investing in.
I was born and raised in Tucson, this type of crime rarely happens. Most people usually hear about crime in Phoenix. Anyways, appears there were multiple suspects in the shooting. 4+ people dead, local sheriff reports that Giffords was gravely wounded, some reports that she's dead, others that she's in surgery. Local newspaper has story up now, http://tucsoncitizen.com/mark-evans/archives/389 No matter what your political affiliation, murder is still murder. I've heard one report that Giffords was shot point-blank in the head. I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war...
Agreed there, there's 2 different re-directs and then a file download. I understand how people still fall for this, but it still amazes me that people go thru all of that still.
Are you hiring? Because you definitely wouldn't be the first boss that I got into a spat with, and if you can actually respect my ability to do a job, that's a serious thumbs up from me.
The actual correct destruction method is as follows:
1. For floppy disks, remove the plastic covering and shred the disk. It's highly recommended that you use the bulk eraser prior to shredding the disk.
2. For hard drives, bulk eraser multiple times, followed by destruction of the drive. It's been a while since I saw the video, but literally tearing the drive apart is required.
FWIW, I was never in the DoD, I did some short contractor work and was required to watch a video on the proper discard of storage devices. It was a really bad imitation of Bill Nye for DoD types.
This is just another item in a long list of stuff that I'm happy to be rid of. Just canceled my cable TV, and no intention of watching shows anymore. I'd rather buy DVDs/BluRay or rent new stuff from Netflix, etc. I can say that I'm quite happy to get rid of the cable box. I've still got broadband, and that's all I'll need.
I disagree, and here's why: with all that Microsoft knowledge, FOSS can't take them. There's no way to determine whether code that came out of the head of Microsoft engineer is free from Microsoft patents. That engineer may know enough of the closed source code to keep that out of FOSS, but there's still no guarantees. You really want to hire that engineer?
I can do without everything except Spike and Comedy Central. The rest of it can burn in the same spot in hell from where it spawned. I still catch the occasional MMA fight on Spike, and late night stand up on Comedy Central.
Time to RTFA. It's a piece of equipment made by his company, that either he didn't secure, or didn't bug test for. Again, no sympathy for him, he screwed up and now stands to lose a lot of money because of that failure.
Sorry, but no sympathy for this guy. It's his company's equipment which was hacked. His telecom company isn't responsible for his equipment, and if they're nice, they'll alert him to the calls. They make money when those calls are made, and why should they be responsible for alerting a customer who's making phone calls. Yes, the calls are going to Bulgaria, but that doesn't mean a telco should alert every person when they make a phone call overseas.
While I would normally agree with this, being used only gets you so far in life. Eventually, even geeks "learn" how to have headaches.
Just because you get served with a subpoena, doesn't mean that you have to immediately comply with it. In this case, the DD guy wants the names of the "intar-web posters". The newspaper place says fuck you, their opinion and right to post opinion is covered under the first amendment. Somehow, this one will end up far beyond just the Maryland SC.
True, we are subject to psychological trickery. But the test are pretty conclusive, as I actually RTFA. If a human brain can perceive an artificial body as it's own in the psychological and physiological sense, it gives researchers a great deal of more research to do. This allows us to "place" a human brain inside an artificial body and still retain full abilities without major psychological damage. That's a serious trick to perform, as once we lose that ownership of the body, behavior can be significantly modified.
I would agree with you that you can acquire wealth from other means, but even wealth is a finite resource, we can only print so much money. Additionally, said wealth is usually has a basis in real world resources. A real estate magnate can't create more real estate, they can only purchase the real estate of others. In that sense, death is one of but a very few means to acquire more real estate.
If I did have that information, it's about guaranteed that the doctor has that information too. After all, that's what I pay him to do, keep up-to-date on medical research to help me with a disease. Doctor/pharmacists are required to complete continuing education courses so that they have the latest information available. And they also have just as much access to WebMD as me, so no excuses there either.
Actually, I find this very disturbing. Med students are in class for learning this stuff, and being objective about diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Having Joe Six Pack figure out he has some acute disease that affects less that 1 percent of the world's population after reading about it online bothers me. Said person then shows up at the doctor's office with his "evidence" of the disease makes me wait an extra hour at the office for a simple check up.
OK, so now we have a word that is the same as another, with a slightly different definition. Instead of people freaking out about imagined illnesses, now they have the ability to get online and find other illnesses that they didn't realize they had... Fantastic. Irritating doesn't even begin to describe my feeling about this one.
I would like to respectfully disagree on the point of 1. No law against. If that were true, then she wouldn't be convicted of 3 misdemeanor crimes. She was found guilty in a court of law by a group of her peers. And in my opinion, she deserves every hour of jail time she gets. She's a fucking 47 year old woman who engaged in bullying a 13 year old girl. All of this over the fact that she believed that said girl was basically talking shit about her daughter, which proved to be false. So yes, she's guilty and I hope she rots in jail for it.
Mod parent and GP up!! Parent has my exact opinion. Any woman willing to go to this length for a confrontation with a 13 year old girl and then decides to engage in cyberbullying deserves some prison time.
One answer... Bwahahahah!!! Half a rugby team paralyzed? That's seriously a joke. NFL players are over-pampered, overpaid wimps compared to the rest of the world. It's one of the few sports that somehow manages to encourage overweight athletes. Take a look at those guts and tell me again that they're in shape.
And yes, I am American, I played actual football, aka soccer. It has just as much physical contact, significantly more demanding on the body, and requires a huge amount of stamina. Do me a favor, go run for 45 minutes, take a 10 minute, and run for another 45 minutes. I'd love to see those NFL athletes have heart attacks over that one...
Actually, I do have a bit of experience. Grandfather died about a month ago, and uncle died about a week before that. It's been a rough year for the family, so the geek had to help. ;)
Make sure the survivor leaves a link to the obituary for the local paper, you'd have to go thru too much trouble to fake that one. At least that's what I'd do.
I don't have such a list. I probably have about 10 different passwords that I use. While this is obviously not the norm, I also keep a password app on my home machine, Password Safe. Any survivor will need a single password to access that database, and then alert everyone in those sites. Since the app uses a single file, put that on a USB stick, hell just name the file with the password.
OTOH, I have very few online contacts, so notifying those people becomes less of a hassle. Besides, how many of those people are going to show up to my funeral anyways?