What the fuck are you talking about? Do you have reason to believe my condition is related to Karoke bars or is that just noise coming out of your ass?
"Unlike other anaesthetics, it's very specific against the pain and doesn't cause any side effects - it's the first time anyone has discovered anything like this," she said.
"Conventional medicines such as morphine can cause a range of unpleasant side effects, including nausea, vision and movement defects and drowsiness."
As a person who suffers from chronic and neuropathic pain, after six surgical procedures on my spine, I would welcome something like this new treatment. I hope it comes sooner than later.
This has nothing to do with the USSR or GDR, and if you see nothing wrong with secret files that could prevent you from pursuing a job or career then you are a Lemming. Yes, I believe I have a right to know what information is being used against me and to object to that information if it is wrong.
Data and the scores can be kept for 40 years, shared widely, and be used in hiring decisions but the traveler is not allowed to see it? Why would a prospective employer have access to this info but the prospective employee can't? They can say "we can't hire you because something showed up in your file but we can't tell you what it is". This has got to be bullshit if anything is.
You work at a desk right? Some of us lesser folks work in factories. Factories full of machines aren't the tidy little places we would all like them to be.
You win this discussion. I'll just lean back in my chair and wait for the New Madrid fault to break south of where I live now. I hope I hear those warning bells first.
Over 150 workers, many near the center of a 300,000 square foot manufacturing plant full of very loud machinery, a hundred feet from the nearest exit with indirect narrow isles leading to the door, lighting provided only by emergency floods. Warning lights and bells for 15 seconds may seem like a lot to you, but in that situation it would have made absolutely no difference to those of us in that building. It would have been just enough time for a few to make it to the door and out. All the practice and drills will not prepare you for the real thing when it happens. You sometimes just have to take your chances where you stand. Sometimes the danger comes too fast for any reaction at all.
"when was the last time that ringing bells paralysed you with fear?"
When was the last time you rode out an earthquake in a building with no place to hide? I'm sure you are a very brave person but it is easy to just talk about fear.
"Sometimes 15 seconds is all it takes to significantly increase your chance of survival."
You are right but only in some instances. I was at work in a factory in Emeryville, CA in 1989 during the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I was a mile or so from the Cypress Street Viaduct when it collapsed. 15 seconds in that case meant nothing at all. All we could do was hold on and hope the building didn't fall in on us. When you are really terrified it's nearly impossible to do much in 15 seconds.
There are two local Kansas City TV news stations that support consumer generated input and it is also featured on CNN. I'm sure there are other examples from other areas around the US and the world. This is not exactly ground breaking technology.
I think we (at least most of the people) do still regard privacy as being important but our government seems to believe differently. Our officials don't appear to fully support our wishes.
Yes, an ISP in the US could delete the logs but I think that is unlikely. I believe we all know that our government is already pushing for, and probably already has arrangements with communication and information companies to retain records.
There's not a chance in hell that anything like this would ever happen in the United States. I hope it works for the Germans. This is the way privacy should be treated. The people have rights.
"I won't even get into how Apple is bundling everything they can under the sun into OS X when the same actions by MS would be tantamount to kicking the interwebs dog."
Why does this have to be repeated over and over again???
Apple has never been convicted of being a monopoly.
"What I find interesting is that the Justice department is checking this "pretexting" business out. Are they interested in prosecuting it... or duplicating it?"
That is an excellent thought, but I would suspect that the US government has been doing this for quite some time now. It has been around for a few years - it just hasn't been a headline this big until now. I think if there are any tricks to spying at least one government agency has it in their bag already.
"you're going to realize that you don't get to decide the moral views of other people"
Would that not apply to both of us? I don't try to legislate my beliefs, I just vote against those that do.
"And your "agnostic" beliefs tell you this?"
No, I see no evidence that an embryonic stem cell is a human life. That is not a faith based opinion.
BTW - I haven't been called son since 1964 and the man that did that was my father and he died. You can call me a lot of things, but "son" is certainly not one of them. That is unacceptable in any discussion.
Where did I say "keeping an open mind"? You're reading things I didn't write. As for stem cells - no human life has ever been lost due to embryonic stem cells being harvested. My assumption about you may have been wrong but but the argument about a harvested stem cell being a loss of a human life is very popular with right to lifers and religious groups who very often are one in the same. It's hard to tell them apart when they all carry the same protest signs.
I am an agnostic. If given enough incontrovertible proof of the existence of a higher power or supreme being I might very well change my beliefs. If you were given incontrovertible proof that there was no God could you do the same?
The game is never over - you just play another hand.
My wife and I already plan on buying a pair of these. Finally we will have a way to communicate over that distance from my end of the couch to hers. No more verbal arguments about which satellite channel to watch.
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If you are responding to me, yes, I did RTFA.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Do you have reason to believe my condition is related to Karoke bars or is that just noise coming out of your ass?
http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1999/11_99/pn_n
At least try to sound educated no matter how hard it is for you.
from TFA
"Unlike other anaesthetics, it's very specific against the pain and doesn't cause any side effects - it's the first time anyone has discovered anything like this," she said.
"Conventional medicines such as morphine can cause a range of unpleasant side effects, including nausea, vision and movement defects and drowsiness."
As a person who suffers from chronic and neuropathic pain, after six surgical procedures on my spine, I would welcome something like this new treatment. I hope it comes sooner than later.
"We are all of us, free..."
except for all of us, who aren't.............
This has nothing to do with the USSR or GDR, and if you see nothing wrong with secret files that could prevent you from pursuing a job or career then you are a Lemming. Yes, I believe I have a right to know what information is being used against me and to object to that information if it is wrong.
Data and the scores can be kept for 40 years, shared widely, and be used in hiring decisions but the traveler is not allowed to see it? Why would a prospective employer have access to this info but the prospective employee can't? They can say "we can't hire you because something showed up in your file but we can't tell you what it is". This has got to be bullshit if anything is.
"Even if you didn't something something"
No, I didn't didn't anything.
You work at a desk right? Some of us lesser folks work in factories. Factories full of machines aren't the tidy little places we would all like them to be.
You win this discussion. I'll just lean back in my chair and wait for the New Madrid fault to break south of where I live now. I hope I hear those warning bells first.
Over 150 workers, many near the center of a 300,000 square foot manufacturing plant full of very loud machinery, a hundred feet from the nearest exit with indirect narrow isles leading to the door, lighting provided only by emergency floods. Warning lights and bells for 15 seconds may seem like a lot to you, but in that situation it would have made absolutely no difference to those of us in that building. It would have been just enough time for a few to make it to the door and out. All the practice and drills will not prepare you for the real thing when it happens. You sometimes just have to take your chances where you stand. Sometimes the danger comes too fast for any reaction at all.
"when was the last time that ringing bells paralysed you with fear?"
When was the last time you rode out an earthquake in a building with no place to hide? I'm sure you are a very brave person but it is easy to just talk about fear.
"Sometimes 15 seconds is all it takes to significantly increase your chance of survival."
You are right but only in some instances. I was at work in a factory in Emeryville, CA in 1989 during the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I was a mile or so from the Cypress Street Viaduct when it collapsed. 15 seconds in that case meant nothing at all. All we could do was hold on and hope the building didn't fall in on us. When you are really terrified it's nearly impossible to do much in 15 seconds.
is barely enough time to evacuate your bowels - let alone prepare for a large quake.
There are two local Kansas City TV news stations that support consumer generated input and it is also featured on CNN. I'm sure there are other examples from other areas around the US and the world. This is not exactly ground breaking technology.
"What, have they been double-billing the DoD this whole time?"
Would this really be a surprise? It's the American way.
OOPS - gave a mod point to the wrong post. I'm a bad man.
"I've been having sex regularly since about 1980"
Doing that alone does not count.
"three thousand times finer than a human hair"
I wish people would quit using this measurement - I'm bald, and I've never measured a hair from any part of my body.
I think we (at least most of the people) do still regard privacy as being important but our government seems to believe differently. Our officials don't appear to fully support our wishes.
Yes, an ISP in the US could delete the logs but I think that is unlikely. I believe we all know that our government is already pushing for, and probably already has arrangements with communication and information companies to retain records.
There's not a chance in hell that anything like this would ever happen in the United States. I hope it works for the Germans. This is the way privacy should be treated. The people have rights.
"I won't even get into how Apple is bundling everything they can under the sun into OS X when the same actions by MS would be tantamount to kicking the interwebs dog."
Why does this have to be repeated over and over again???
Apple has never been convicted of being a monopoly.
"What I find interesting is that the Justice department is checking this "pretexting" business out. Are they interested in prosecuting it... or duplicating it?"
That is an excellent thought, but I would suspect that the US government has been doing this for quite some time now. It has been around for a few years - it just hasn't been a headline this big until now. I think if there are any tricks to spying at least one government agency has it in their bag already.
"you're going to realize that you don't get to decide the moral views of other people"
Would that not apply to both of us? I don't try to legislate my beliefs, I just vote against those that do.
"And your "agnostic" beliefs tell you this?"
No, I see no evidence that an embryonic stem cell is a human life. That is not a faith based opinion.
BTW - I haven't been called son since 1964 and the man that did that was my father and he died. You can call me a lot of things, but "son" is certainly not one of them. That is unacceptable in any discussion.
Where did I say "keeping an open mind"? You're reading things I didn't write. As for stem cells - no human life has ever been lost due to embryonic stem cells being harvested. My assumption about you may have been wrong but but the argument about a harvested stem cell being a loss of a human life is very popular with right to lifers and religious groups who very often are one in the same. It's hard to tell them apart when they all carry the same protest signs.
I am an agnostic. If given enough incontrovertible proof of the existence of a higher power or supreme being I might very well change my beliefs. If you were given incontrovertible proof that there was no God could you do the same?
The game is never over - you just play another hand.
"I look forward to the advances that can be made with stem cells that were harvested without a loss to human life."
That statement makes any logical discourse impossible. Your opinion is set in religious stone and renders any discourse with you pointless.
My wife and I already plan on buying a pair of these. Finally we will have a way to communicate over that distance from my end of the couch to hers. No more verbal arguments about which satellite channel to watch.