Reading comprehension FTW. He didn't say he paid 60% in taxes. He said 60% OF his taxes go to entitlements, the other 40% go to other stuff, like infrastructure, public safety, etc. Question him on that if you like but don't say he's wrong (or worse, lying) about something he didn't say.
Please list the advantages of California that are due to taxes or government. I'm truly interested to know them.
You don't directly legislate cost reductions period. You legislate things that will lead to lower costs, like caps on malpractice damages, removing the restrictions on interstate trade in health insurance, etc. etc.
No, he was exactly right. He said, "not air pressure". It's not air pressure. It's the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid being siphoned, which as you understand, is a result of gravity. A siphon would work just as well in a vacuum (both ends at vacuum, of course).
Many doctors will tell you that many tests are either unnecessary, or even harmful. There was a story just yesterday on/. about the radiation exposure from medical imaging. Other tests are invasive, some have false positives and cause treatments, even surgery, for non-existent conditions, and they all cost a lot.
There was a This American Life program last year (listen to it here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/391/More-Is-Less) about health care costs and they quoted a doctor who tried to convince an attorney/father of an injured girl not to give her an CAT scan when a simple test based on a rule of thumb would suffice and avoid radiation exposure. He had to weigh the cost of the time it would take to convince the dad/att'y. He admitted, he could just give the CAT scan to save himself the time and avoid a complaint. No one would ever blame a cancer she got twenty years later on the CAT scan, he'd get paid more, etc. Many reasons to give the CAT scan. But, in this case, he decided to push the issue saying it was not in the patients interest to do the CAT scan. The dad relented. Another example given: PSA test for prostate cancer.
So did all the people who modded this comment up (which I would have done too, had I the mod points) also take opportunities here on/. and elsewhere to point out the failure of Obamacare to address, in any way at all, the excessive medical litigation and resulting malpractice costs, or anything on the cost side of healthcare for that matter, besides the evil insurance companies?
Again, vacuum ultraviolet is something people will never come into contact with since you'd literally have to be in a vacuum to do so. So in terms of the UV that anyone cares about from a health standpoint, it is not ionizing.
It could work for one vuvuzela, but not for a bunch of them. Destructive interference with a bunch of sources all out of phase with each other. Kind of like an incandescent light bulb (many vuvuzelas) vs. a laser (one vuvuzela). The other problem would be location. The interference would be alternating between constructive and destructive, unless the "anti-sound" were located in the exact same place as the vuvuzela. In short, it would not work.
UV is definitely not ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation includes alpha, beta and gamma/x-ray, and cosmic rays (mostly protons, the rest alpha, beta, x-ray, heavier element nuclei). Vacuum ultraviolet (extremely short wavelength UV) can be ionizing, but one can't be exposed to it, since, like its name suggests, it is absorbed by even a small amount of a gas, so it can travel only through a vacuum. UV A, UV B and UV C do cause photochemical reactions, but they are not ionizing radiation.
I guess that's why the troll mod. Just to make sure everyone is clear on it.
Just because it has generic-sounding name "Make" does not mean readers expect it to tell them how to make potato soup, or doilies, or make their beds, or make whoopee, or make peanut butter from raw peanuts, etc. I think they were used to it showing them how to build interesting, challenging technical projects.
"The maker of the horns admits that the prototype came from the USA."
I've seen/heard them here in the states (Portland, OR) at soccer games (in very limited numbers).
I'd also seen an article (at bbc.co.uk I think) that said that there was a Baptist church in South Africa who are quite upset that the vuvuzela is being used this way since they use them in religious ceremony, and play it a lot more skillfully. Theirs are metal, and it was undesirable to let crowds carrying three-foot long metals horn into stadiums, so they made them of plastic instead. I'd guess the real reason is plastic is cheaper by far and easier to fabricate.
I found this: http://aubreygroves.blogspot.com/2010/06/disturbing-vuvuzelas.html
So what is the real origin?
Sounds like it wasn't grad school that was the bad choice, it was math over CS. Have you tried the NSA? They hire more mathematicians than anyone, I hear.
You're talking about the DeLaval and Sharples centrifugal oil purifiers on Navy ships. We had one on the submarine I was on too, though I can't remember seeing it used much. We ran them in Machinist's Mate A school and learned about their operation. The thing in TFA sounds different, certainly in size, but also perhaps in influent. The Navy units were about the size of an automobile engine and took in mostly pure oil of fairly low viscosity. The Costner units would have to be much larger and take in mostly water with some much higher viscosity crude oil. The basic concept may be the same but the application is quite different.
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Reading comprehension FTW. He didn't say he paid 60% in taxes. He said 60% OF his taxes go to entitlements, the other 40% go to other stuff, like infrastructure, public safety, etc. Question him on that if you like but don't say he's wrong (or worse, lying) about something he didn't say.
Please list the advantages of California that are due to taxes or government. I'm truly interested to know them.
I think GP was trying to point out that you have egg (yolk) on your face.
You don't directly legislate cost reductions period. You legislate things that will lead to lower costs, like caps on malpractice damages, removing the restrictions on interstate trade in health insurance, etc. etc.
No, he was exactly right. He said, "not air pressure". It's not air pressure.
It's the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid being siphoned, which as you understand, is a result of gravity. A siphon would work just as well in a vacuum (both ends at vacuum, of course).
Oops, my bad. Blue Demons.
Either way, a funny mascot for a Catholic university.
and the quality of their product, Chicago (the band), is quite well known. Those guys went to school there.
So did my father-in-law.
Blue Devils.
That's a big "or".
Many doctors will tell you that many tests are either unnecessary, or even harmful. There was a story just yesterday on /. about the radiation exposure from medical imaging. Other tests are invasive, some have false positives and cause treatments, even surgery, for non-existent conditions, and they all cost a lot.
There was a This American Life program last year (listen to it here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/391/More-Is-Less) about health care costs and they quoted a doctor who tried to convince an attorney/father of an injured girl not to give her an CAT scan when a simple test based on a rule of thumb would suffice and avoid radiation exposure. He had to weigh the cost of the time it would take to convince the dad/att'y. He admitted, he could just give the CAT scan to save himself the time and avoid a complaint. No one would ever blame a cancer she got twenty years later on the CAT scan, he'd get paid more, etc. Many reasons to give the CAT scan. But, in this case, he decided to push the issue saying it was not in the patients interest to do the CAT scan. The dad relented.
Another example given: PSA test for prostate cancer.
So did all the people who modded this comment up (which I would have done too, had I the mod points) also take opportunities here on /. and elsewhere to point out the failure of Obamacare to address, in any way at all, the excessive medical litigation and resulting malpractice costs, or anything on the cost side of healthcare for that matter, besides the evil insurance companies?
"drug abuse resistance gene"
Ha. That's a different meaning of "drug abuse resistance" than the D.A.R.E. project had in mind!
Ability to survive lots of drug abuse vs. ability to resist using drugs of abuse. I'm not sure which genes (if they exist) would be better to have.
"The UV band in general is absolutely considered to be ionizing."
No, it is not "in general".
See http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q2111.html.
and http://ehs.uky.edu/biosafety/uv_radiation.html
and http://yarchive.net/env/ultraviolet_dna_damage.html
and http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiation_nonionizing/index.html#ultraviolet
and http://www.icnirp.de/PubOptical.htm
Again, vacuum ultraviolet is something people will never come into contact with since you'd literally have to be in a vacuum to do so.
So in terms of the UV that anyone cares about from a health standpoint, it is not ionizing.
I thought it interesting that the Eastern Arabic character for eight is the same as the Japanese character.
It could work for one vuvuzela, but not for a bunch of them. Destructive interference with a bunch of sources all out of phase with each other.
Kind of like an incandescent light bulb (many vuvuzelas) vs. a laser (one vuvuzela). The other problem would be location. The interference would be alternating between constructive and destructive, unless the "anti-sound" were located in the exact same place as the vuvuzela.
In short, it would not work.
See this for some background: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/interf.html
especially the part about interference with a tuning fork.
UV is definitely not ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation includes alpha, beta and gamma/x-ray, and cosmic rays (mostly protons, the rest alpha, beta, x-ray, heavier element nuclei).
Vacuum ultraviolet (extremely short wavelength UV) can be ionizing, but one can't be exposed to it, since, like its name suggests, it is absorbed by even a small amount of a gas, so it can travel only through a vacuum. UV A, UV B and UV C do cause photochemical reactions, but they are not ionizing radiation.
I guess that's why the troll mod.
Just to make sure everyone is clear on it.
Just because it has generic-sounding name "Make" does not mean readers expect it to tell them how to make potato soup, or doilies, or make their beds, or make whoopee, or make peanut butter from raw peanuts, etc. I think they were used to it showing them how to build interesting, challenging technical projects.
Well, did they use a *hack* saw to cut open the 9V battery?
"The maker of the horns admits that the prototype came from the USA." I've seen/heard them here in the states (Portland, OR) at soccer games (in very limited numbers). I'd also seen an article (at bbc.co.uk I think) that said that there was a Baptist church in South Africa who are quite upset that the vuvuzela is being used this way since they use them in religious ceremony, and play it a lot more skillfully. Theirs are metal, and it was undesirable to let crowds carrying three-foot long metals horn into stadiums, so they made them of plastic instead. I'd guess the real reason is plastic is cheaper by far and easier to fabricate. I found this: http://aubreygroves.blogspot.com/2010/06/disturbing-vuvuzelas.html So what is the real origin?
OP should've gotten the funny mod, not GP.
Al dente? That'd be a real challenge!
Atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom, not a number of atoms.
Sounds like it wasn't grad school that was the bad choice, it was math over CS. Have you tried the NSA? They hire more mathematicians than anyone, I hear.
You're talking about the DeLaval and Sharples centrifugal oil purifiers on Navy ships. We had one on the submarine I was on too, though I can't remember seeing it used much. We ran them in Machinist's Mate A school and learned about their operation. The thing in TFA sounds different, certainly in size, but also perhaps in influent. The Navy units were about the size of an automobile engine and took in mostly pure oil of fairly low viscosity. The Costner units would have to be much larger and take in mostly water with some much higher viscosity crude oil. The basic concept may be the same but the application is quite different.
Well, get bach to work and you'll forget all about it. Ugh.
It'd be hard to do if it's only on paper. Ah, but then Albert Camus novels are only on paper too, I suppose.
Perhaps if you google it, you can find a counterexample.