Color me confused, but when did "can" become "always can?"
The spinal cord is not magical. Reconnecting nerves has been a thing for a long time. No, it doesn't always work. No, you don't start cutting on the important ones unless you're going to die anyways. Yes, some people who had spinal cord injuries and were told they would never walk went on to have successful surgeries, heal, and walk.
It fails. No, nerve injuries do not always heal; yes, they sometimes heal. Yes, sometimes doctors can cut and re-attach nerves and improve function. No, they cannot always do that.
See how easy that was? Some != All, Mastered != Middling. Is a middling life alive? Yes, yes it is.
He can't be American; here it is more expensive to execute somebody than to imprison them for life. If you want to save money, just "reform" their health insurance to include some Tough Love measures! That's the American way. Our health care sucks, but some patients do get passable hospice care, if tough love fails in a detectable way early enough.
This is a crazy thing to do, but one point in the recipient's defense : if he's looking at dying in the next few months or years, even a quadriplegic (but otherwise healthy enough) body might be a preferable alternative.
I'd rather be a spider than a snail, but I'd rather be a snail than some dirt.
Lie to yourself all you want, but if you read this comment and didn't send me $20, you stole from me. Because anybody can use any word at any time, even if it makes no sense. When you're 3 you'll understand.
Chest x-ray I paid the hospital for the x-ray, which included the nurse who walked me to the room and positioned me on the equipment, then I paid separately for the lab worker who just presses the button when the nurse says to, and then I paid for one doctor to examine the x-ray, and then a smaller amount for a different doctor to review it the next day to check for obvious mistakes.
What pisses me off isn't paying 4 people for what was provided as an integrated service. It's getting the bills separately at different times. If they would just send me "a hospital bill" where those were 4 different lines, it would be a lot easier to know how much it cost, and to know when I had finished paying it.
"Long term effects" in this case are probably going to consist of a few seconds of life, measurable on the brain scan, followed by death.
New body nerves will change things, but probably not that much, because those are tight self-regulating feedback loops. Very similar to electronic feedback loops. Changing gut bacteria might be a bigger subjective change, and doesn't require changing the rest of the body.
I don't think it is an accurate comparison to the Soviet Union. It is basically a Confucian hereditary dictatorship, which is based on the idea of hereditary meritocracy. Disproven, sure; that's why China isn't trying it. Not communist at all, but also not Soviet.
China is in the process of shrinking the number of soldiers they have, so they can modernize and have a high tech military instead. So for people who read news about the subject you bring up, it would be very non-obvious to think there would be room for them there.
China is less restrained in problem solving than we are. I hate to think just what they might do if obesity officially becomes a problem. Somehow i picture youth being herded into fat camps where they labor and are forced to get into slender shapes. They obviously keep their military people in a very slim form by simply keeping them hungry and requiring exercise.
Fat kids don't make that good of organ donors, so you're right; it will take a bunch of forced labor just to prepare them for, uh, re-education.
Nothing re-educates a being like being divided and placed inside a bunch of other bodies. Just ask a falun gong practitioner! Or at least, ask their kidneys.
In most of Asia, small towns only have KFC, not McDonalds. McDonalds is an American thing, and a big city "American food" thing. KFC is the locally-familiar fast food in Asia.
And in Thailand, American Food usually means Pizza Hut instead of McDonalds. But KFC is still king of crapfood.
Same as everything else; you change your own attitude and practices, and stop worrying about how fat people are, or whatever their other lifestyle choices are.
Labeling is legit because it enables choice. But wanting the result of people making approved choices is perhaps a very different thing.
Attitudes have changed; even major fast food chains now sell salads. Why? Many customers want to eat healthier than they wanted to a couple decades ago. Are they going to actually stop eating globs of syrup and polysorbate, and feeling satisfied? A few will, most won't. None of my business.
My legitimate interest ends at having the information needed to make an educated choice, should I so choose.
If you try to ban Sugardrink, criminals will just sell it on the streetcorner. And none of the neighbors will report them, because they'll be armed and on a sugar rush.
Just Say No to added sugar. Attend a meeting. Or buy a masticating slow juicer and switch to fresh carrot juice.
I write most of my code in emacs, but I do my system administration with vi.
But if I'm in a hurry, I use just cat.
To stay on topic, I lost 50lb over the last 2.5 years by removing heavily processed ingredients from my diet and increasing my exercise. The secret about calories and processed foods... the processed crap has more calories for the same volume of food, or the same amount of flavor. You can eat a big plate of veggies with a reasonable amount of yummy sauce, and be losing weight right from the basement table.
For those of old enough to have been there and young enough to remember, it wasn't a "crusade" it was a batch of failed proposals by a politician's wife. Everybody agreed she had a right to ask for whatever she wanted to ask for, but there was no support for the proposals, no crusade.
The only reason people even remember the name of the person who proposed music content ratings is because musicians at the time added her name to their songs, because "politicians wife" was still more broadly known than "niche band." And I still listen to some of those musicians. But none of those songs made insightful commentary into that debate.
A crusade requires a bunch of other people to agree, and go off to fight legendary battles over it. That didn't happen. What did happen was, a lot of record labels agreed to add a voluntary "content advisory" to their packaging, because they understood that it would make them look anti-establishment to teenagers and help sell albums.
The regional FCC office in my State doesn't do that. If you're a first offender and it is private, non-commercial use, and you didn't interfere with the airport, they simply confiscate everything with a plug, but don't fine you. You can get back things with a plug that are not radio-related... if you cooperated and made an effort to learn the rule you broke.
A lot of CBers get all their electronics confiscated, and learn not to use 1000W amplifiers. 100W-250W, usually turned down to 10 or 15W, is more than sufficient to be heard, after all. 1000W is a power trip, every time. But it is also expensive...
There is no way I'm going to give my whole neighborhood, and indeed the whole world, my information about how I use what frequencies for what, and just hope that everybody in the world is some sort of John Galt libertarian God of Benevolence.
"no regulation" means you don't have all that regulation stuff, it doesn't mean that it just self-organizes in perfect form from the ooze.
More like, gangs and cliques create their private digital distribution networks and run them enough power to stomp out every other signal in the neighborhood, and if you want to transmit, you can pay them for access.
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Color me confused, but when did "can" become "always can?"
The spinal cord is not magical. Reconnecting nerves has been a thing for a long time. No, it doesn't always work. No, you don't start cutting on the important ones unless you're going to die anyways. Yes, some people who had spinal cord injuries and were told they would never walk went on to have successful surgeries, heal, and walk.
Batboy has always had a two digit user id, you insensitive clod!
Allow me to paraphrase your analysis.
Nothing is perfect, therefore nothing is.
It fails. No, nerve injuries do not always heal; yes, they sometimes heal. Yes, sometimes doctors can cut and re-attach nerves and improve function. No, they cannot always do that.
See how easy that was? Some != All, Mastered != Middling. Is a middling life alive? Yes, yes it is.
He can't be American; here it is more expensive to execute somebody than to imprison them for life. If you want to save money, just "reform" their health insurance to include some Tough Love measures! That's the American way. Our health care sucks, but some patients do get passable hospice care, if tough love fails in a detectable way early enough.
This is a crazy thing to do, but one point in the recipient's defense : if he's looking at dying in the next few months or years, even a quadriplegic (but otherwise healthy enough) body might be a preferable alternative.
I'd rather be a spider than a snail, but I'd rather be a snail than some dirt.
If I had $20m and a day to live, 9 more days might be a lot!
If you can still "slap down cash," you don't need this operation. That much is clear.
The monkey was paralyzed, and died 9 days later - that is a pretty low bar for "successful".
That is actually a hugely successful early transplant. How long did early heart transplant recipients live? Measured in seconds!
Lie to yourself all you want, but if you read this comment and didn't send me $20, you stole from me. Because anybody can use any word at any time, even if it makes no sense. When you're 3 you'll understand.
If they figure out how to tell him things, they're going to have a hard time getting consent; or explaining what they mean by "brain-dead."
Chest x-ray I paid the hospital for the x-ray, which included the nurse who walked me to the room and positioned me on the equipment, then I paid separately for the lab worker who just presses the button when the nurse says to, and then I paid for one doctor to examine the x-ray, and then a smaller amount for a different doctor to review it the next day to check for obvious mistakes.
What pisses me off isn't paying 4 people for what was provided as an integrated service. It's getting the bills separately at different times. If they would just send me "a hospital bill" where those were 4 different lines, it would be a lot easier to know how much it cost, and to know when I had finished paying it.
"Long term effects" in this case are probably going to consist of a few seconds of life, measurable on the brain scan, followed by death.
New body nerves will change things, but probably not that much, because those are tight self-regulating feedback loops. Very similar to electronic feedback loops. Changing gut bacteria might be a bigger subjective change, and doesn't require changing the rest of the body.
I don't think it is an accurate comparison to the Soviet Union. It is basically a Confucian hereditary dictatorship, which is based on the idea of hereditary meritocracy. Disproven, sure; that's why China isn't trying it. Not communist at all, but also not Soviet.
China is in the process of shrinking the number of soldiers they have, so they can modernize and have a high tech military instead. So for people who read news about the subject you bring up, it would be very non-obvious to think there would be room for them there.
China is less restrained in problem solving than we are. I hate to think just what they might do if obesity officially becomes a problem. Somehow i picture youth being herded into fat camps where they labor and are forced to get into slender shapes. They obviously keep their military people in a very slim form by simply keeping them hungry and requiring exercise.
Fat kids don't make that good of organ donors, so you're right; it will take a bunch of forced labor just to prepare them for, uh, re-education.
Nothing re-educates a being like being divided and placed inside a bunch of other bodies. Just ask a falun gong practitioner! Or at least, ask their kidneys.
Yo mommas so skinny, she had to tie some knots in her legs to make knees!
Yo mommas so ugly, she had to sneak up on her glass to get a drink of water!
Yo mammas so stupid, she thinks Chinese kids don't any food to eat!
In fairness to the mousy cowherd, there's all kinds of stupid in this thread.
In most of Asia, small towns only have KFC, not McDonalds. McDonalds is an American thing, and a big city "American food" thing. KFC is the locally-familiar fast food in Asia.
And in Thailand, American Food usually means Pizza Hut instead of McDonalds. But KFC is still king of crapfood.
Same as everything else; you change your own attitude and practices, and stop worrying about how fat people are, or whatever their other lifestyle choices are.
Labeling is legit because it enables choice. But wanting the result of people making approved choices is perhaps a very different thing.
Attitudes have changed; even major fast food chains now sell salads. Why? Many customers want to eat healthier than they wanted to a couple decades ago. Are they going to actually stop eating globs of syrup and polysorbate, and feeling satisfied? A few will, most won't. None of my business.
My legitimate interest ends at having the information needed to make an educated choice, should I so choose.
If you try to ban Sugardrink, criminals will just sell it on the streetcorner. And none of the neighbors will report them, because they'll be armed and on a sugar rush.
Just Say No to added sugar. Attend a meeting. Or buy a masticating slow juicer and switch to fresh carrot juice.
I write most of my code in emacs, but I do my system administration with vi.
But if I'm in a hurry, I use just cat.
To stay on topic, I lost 50lb over the last 2.5 years by removing heavily processed ingredients from my diet and increasing my exercise. The secret about calories and processed foods... the processed crap has more calories for the same volume of food, or the same amount of flavor. You can eat a big plate of veggies with a reasonable amount of yummy sauce, and be losing weight right from the basement table.
Calories are a measure of heat, so I'm assuming he means cold places.
...most humans have no trouble eating it thanks to their innate ability to chew their food. Sucks to be you, gummy.
My species has been using stone tools for millions of years, you insensitive clod!
Sucks for you to be from a species that can't even pound some cooked grains. I've seen a chimp who could make instant coffee, after all.
For those of old enough to have been there and young enough to remember, it wasn't a "crusade" it was a batch of failed proposals by a politician's wife. Everybody agreed she had a right to ask for whatever she wanted to ask for, but there was no support for the proposals, no crusade.
The only reason people even remember the name of the person who proposed music content ratings is because musicians at the time added her name to their songs, because "politicians wife" was still more broadly known than "niche band." And I still listen to some of those musicians. But none of those songs made insightful commentary into that debate.
A crusade requires a bunch of other people to agree, and go off to fight legendary battles over it. That didn't happen. What did happen was, a lot of record labels agreed to add a voluntary "content advisory" to their packaging, because they understood that it would make them look anti-establishment to teenagers and help sell albums.
According to the internet, a lot of people need all 7 of those at the same time.
The regional FCC office in my State doesn't do that. If you're a first offender and it is private, non-commercial use, and you didn't interfere with the airport, they simply confiscate everything with a plug, but don't fine you. You can get back things with a plug that are not radio-related... if you cooperated and made an effort to learn the rule you broke.
A lot of CBers get all their electronics confiscated, and learn not to use 1000W amplifiers. 100W-250W, usually turned down to 10 or 15W, is more than sufficient to be heard, after all. 1000W is a power trip, every time. But it is also expensive...
There is no way I'm going to give my whole neighborhood, and indeed the whole world, my information about how I use what frequencies for what, and just hope that everybody in the world is some sort of John Galt libertarian God of Benevolence.
"no regulation" means you don't have all that regulation stuff, it doesn't mean that it just self-organizes in perfect form from the ooze.
More like, gangs and cliques create their private digital distribution networks and run them enough power to stomp out every other signal in the neighborhood, and if you want to transmit, you can pay them for access.