You know that it was the personal computer, the same thing in the same box, that enabled the cellular phone that you're referencing? It is also those same sort of computers that, albeit in a different shaped box, enable that communication you speak of.
While it's great that you're close and can give personal anecdotes and even cite select figures, has it occurred to you that you're incapable of being objective? I'll also add that the news is generally only going to show you the bad because the normal, every-day, fairly standard stuff isn't really that interesting. It doesn't get eyeballs, excitement, or result in charged emotions.
Get out, travel the world. Most of all, visit America - if you want. Spend some time and actually meet some people.
Let's start with the number of people treated... Then, let's consider the types of treatments that are available? Then, let's consider cultural differences where one group may try to do everything to save an elderly person and the other is more stoic and realistic. Consider then the complexity of the newer and riskier procedures.
No system is perfect and it probably won't ever be perfect. I've stomped across the planet and seen a whole lot of it - in person and up close. The US system isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. There are a lot of improvements to be made but that's true everywhere. There's a reason that those who can afford it will often travel to the US for specialty care. That reason is because it's well documented that the care can be about the best on the planet.
I realize that the concept above, in that last sentence, sounds a bit barbaric but welcome to America. I say that the US system isn't as bad as it could be because there are really people here who'd be quite content to know that the poor people were getting no treatment at all. We're a very... Hmm... We're a very selfish people here but that's not universal. I'm a pretty hard-core Libertarian, for example, but I strongly support single-payer health care. I'm also big on personal responsibility and yeah, I guess that does mean that people have to accept the consequences of their choices. I'm okay with that, within reason.
So, there's more to the story and you don't look to be objective enough to actually be able to voice a valuable opinion. Yeah, it's great that you're involved and that you're really happy about your system (I notice there are some huge tonal differences between your first post and your replies - and it's okay - we're all nationalistic but eager to accuse others of it and refuse to see it in ourselves) but that actually means you're probably not really going to give an objective and accurate portrayal of your system. Note, really, the differences between your first comment and then the tone of your replies when called out by it by a fellow citizen.
It's okay... In all my travels I've learned one important thing. We're pretty much all just humans underneath.
The US still has the material wealth to pretend to be able to pay it - we've loads of national resources and the military might to silence critics if need be. Finland hasn't got that. I do seem to recall that Finland now has an oil industry but that it's not actually their oil - it's just getting refined there and it comes from Norway and Russia. So, there's that but they tell me oil's going to keep having production issues and the usage will continue to decrease.
Maybe that's what they're suggesting?
But yeah, the US has a whole bunch of resources left and, equally important, has been investing in military tech for a very long time. It's not polite to mention that but it is the reality. Also, don't blame me - I didn't do it. I'm just sharing the information.
> Until patient outcome has as much influence on medical practitioner compensation as mere throughput there will be no incentive for clinicians to up their game.
Then no doctors will undertake the riskier surgeries that are difficult and have a lower chance of success. Yup... Sounds like a good plan to me. Let's run with it!
(That's also a part of why the numbers are as high as they are. Yeah, you make more mistakes when you try difficult and new things. Imagine that.)
Lots of people like to point to the numbers instead of actually looking at the reasons and being honest. The medical professionals are also more willing to try riskier and newer things than they are in other countries. We also report our medical data differently than other countries.
That is not to say that it is good, that it is better, or that it is ideal but it is to say that it's a bit disingenuous to ignore the reality and just point to the numbers as if they alone are significant. Juxtaposition is also nice.
My best toys are in my basement! But yeah, I don't think most folks eat it - I was just bringing it up as a curiosity because I'd been told I was eating some in the past. I smoke cigars, used to drink heavily, eat very spicy foods, and consumed way too many opiates for a long time. So, when I say that I'm not the best judge of taste, I mean it. I was also crazy enough to enlist in the Marines, not once but twice. So, I'll eat anything at least once. There are only a few things I won't try a second time. However, taste isn't actually always a priority when I eat. I don't really have much of a sense of taste - or smell. (I've also crammed mounds of intoxicating substances up my nose over the years. I'm pretty sure that doesn't help.)
Hmm... Come to think of it, I'm sure I've done far stupider things and more damage that I'm just not recollecting.
But, the general idea is that I don't actually know if it was something that normal people would eat. The folks I'd eaten with that said it was homemade were rather ritzy folks and they don't necessarily eat the best of foods. They eat expensive foods but some of them are not things that I enjoy eating - which is saying something. Well, it is to me.
No, I have no idea how to describe what I'm trying to say...
Ah! An analogy. I'm partially color blind - progressively worse. I have no clue what colors you see and when you tell me it's a different color than what I see then I must defer to you.
Which is to say, I have no idea if homemade butter is any good but I'm under the impression that others liked it. The process looks simple enough.
Ah well... That's a really very muddy thing that I just said. Somewhere in all that gibberish - is a point. Good luck in finding it. I'm just gonna send it and pretend it never happened.
Back in the late 1970s, I figured out a trick. I was enlisted in the Marines back then and we drank - a lot. Man, did we drink. Anyhow, we'd all be getting shitty and I'd ask one of my drinking buddies, "When was the last time you went pee?"
They'd look at you funny but they were off to the bathroom within five minutes. Done quietly, while moving from small group to small group, I could create a run on the bathroom. Drunken Marines, all having to piss and now angry, resulted in some of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Check your settings, all of them. I've been reading Slashdot for a very long time and I check the post count on *every* thread that I read - and load all comments when the number is greater than the set amount (250 here). That has never, not one time, happened in any thread that I've read - in many, many years.
There are more than a few of us and I'm actually a Libertarian. I am not a Randian but I am a Libertarian. In fact, I've been with the party since about 1978. One of the many reasons I support Sanders is because his policies will be less expensive, overall, for the entirety.
Of course, there's a good chance that you don't know many Libertarians and have a crazy belief about the things most of us stand for. Though, to be fair, we do have some idiots in the party. I dare say that those idiots are not yet the majority.
If they were smart, they'd not even take the cards - they'd just run them through a skimmer (I imagine you could hook one to a cell phone) and you'd never know when it happened. Best of all, they could keep coming back once they found a victim. When "their" new card comes working, they just come back and skim the replacement. Hell, if they had the balls they could do it at night while the victim was asleep.
I forget which but I'm sure Google knows. I'm also that lazy. However, I'm pretty sure Germany was one. You do not have mandatory service anymore in Germany but, when they did, you didn't go to prison for refusing to participate. Instead, you became ineligible for a variety of services including "free" continued education and things like that. I know there are a few like that and I think Germany was one of them. You don't actually go to prison or anything. You just don't get the benefits for living in the society that you refused to serve. Meh, it kind of makes sense. If I ponder it for too long then my hair starts to burn but I don't see that as necessarily being a bad thing. I see it as having potentially bad implementations but not necessarily bad by itself.
At any rate, it was on the news a couple of years ago. Germany abolished the need for service. And, unlike what someone above mentioned, there are far more countries besides the US and Canada that don't require mandatory service. The US can require mandatory service in times of war - that's the draft.
Google tells me you can make margarine at home and it looks to be pretty simple. Now, that's not what people usually consume but I figure a fact or two never hurt anyone. I was also curious because I've heard people mention homemade margarine before and have even consumed some. I'd assumed they were being honest and never thought about it beyond that. I'm usually a butter type of person but I'm not particularly picky or anything.
I asked a Jew that question and they sent me a bunch of links about it - many of them leading to a StackExchange network site, as I recall. So, if you're interested in it then you can just hit up the Google and all will become clear. Or not... What it will do is let you know what the current thinking is. Basically, it's all good so long as the originating stock, should it come from one, was kosher and the originating stock material was butchered in the kosher manner.
If you know anything about Judaism then you'll also be aware that there's surely different views and that the approach will be different but the above is pretty consistent between the varied views. I should also mention that Jews don't have to starve themselves if there is, literally, no choice in the matter. Eating an unclean animal is acceptable (but not kosher!) if one believed that not doing so would result in death or great harm.
Like all religions, there's some variations and there are different degrees of dedication and adherence to the rules. Strangely enough, most people aren't really very binary.
Maybe my math is off but I'm pretty sure that, even in modern Western society, the government is responsible for far more human suffering and death than any corporate shenanigans. I have to wonder if you're just not being very honest with yourself or if you've got some math that I don't have access to.
It would appear that Google seems to think there are some - when I search for the phrase. There's even a shirt with it on it, and a hoodie. I didn't look - they might have been tongue in cheek.
Personally? I grow the majority of vegetables that I eat and I hunt or fish for much of the meat that I eat or, alternatively, I buy a half cow and a pig from the neighbor. I've the equipment to process and preserve it and I've learned how to use it effectively. I make serviceable cuts with game and domesticated meats. It's not as easy as it might look but so long as you've cleaned them properly the meat is still edible so mistakes are still tasty.
When I'm home, which is the majority of the time, almost none of my food comes from a store - not even my milk. I do not grow my own grains but I have thought about it. I just can't really justify the labor of the harvest or the purchase of the equipment but I have thought about seeing about an antique (25+ years - not that old) setup and learning how to operate it safely and effectively. I've also looked into, but not acted on, having my growth harvested by someone who doesn't live all that far away and has the equipment to do it. I could also grow corn in larger quantities if I did that. There's a mill not too far away so I could do grains like wheat and rye.
I do love my rice but I do not grow rice. I do grow potatoes - I grow a HUGE garden, to the point where I hire people to help with it. It's just not large enough to really justify bulky equipment and it is already quite labor intensive. So, I end up purchasing some potatoes come spring. I guess I can say that it's not a vegetable but that's not really proving anything other than a technicality. The gist being that I actually do know or grow much of my own food - inside and out, so to speak. I even have a variety of berries (don't get me started on berries) and some fruit trees though they're from a *very* old orchard that hasn't been (I forget the word) functional in a long time.
I found said orchard while hiking on some of the land I own and it turns out that it's quite old and there's even some information at the Historical Society down in the village. I own what was (is?) known as Piper's Pear Tree. The orchard has a variety of fruit, including some apples, and a few of the apple trees might be unknown as a specific species. The (fairly) local university has sent in people a couple of times and we're waiting for some more information to be provided.
What information? I'm glad you asked.
While I've shared this before, I don't mind typing it again. I had a arbor-dude come in and take a look. He cut it back and then came in for a couple more years and cut again. Supposedly, according to him - and he's the expert and I am not, I should have viable fruit trees in just a few more years now. Some of them are already fruiting but they're less than tasty at this point. I have not yet had one good piece of fruit. It appears that the cut (and thus the condition) actually has some bearing on the resulting fruit - in many, many ways and I don't mean just size. It should (ideally) be really good fruit in a few years longer than that. No, no I had no idea that it was anything like this. I am not a fruit tree expert and I don't even bother to pretend to be one online.
So, eventually I'll have my own fruit. I already have some blueberries but they're not nearly enough. (I'm also told I can burn the forest down and grow plenty of berries after that - that seems unwise but tempting.) Blueberries like shallow, rocky, acidic soil. Torch the trees on the side of the mountain and I should have berries. Tempting... Tempting indeed. So, for now, I pay people who live fairly close for their fruits. It's a long story.
At any rate, they do not know what the apple trees are. Not yet, not really. They'll be a bit different when they produce actual quality fruit. This fruit will actually be a bit different and almost certainly not sequenced or anything. The pear also appears to have been bred with at least
Observation: Many people are inclined to not debate what you said but what they believe you to have said - even if you did not imply any such thing. Hypothesis: I'm being polite today so draw your own conclusions.
Seriously, I'm not actually sure what motivates people to do so. It's hardly conducive to a quality exchange of information. It doesn't even "win" anything. I'd like to imagine I'm not but I suspect that I'm guilty of engaging in the behavior though I do make an effort to avoid it. If I'm "right" all the time then I'm not really learning anything.
Oh, don't apologize to me. LOL It's all good - I was just sort of baffled. I've seen you post before and I'd tell you if I thought you were an idiot. So, I was actually wondering what the hell it was that I was missing. I read it (including the gibberish you responded to) a half dozen times in my effort to figure it out. I was wondering if I was missing something in the Ebonics. However, surprising though it may be, I'm actually sort of fluent in understanding (I guess I could speak it) a number of regional Ebonics dialects. I travel a lot and I find dialects and accents fascinating - I have also been "on the road" since September of last year (2015) so I've had the chance to get a bit of a refresher.
Though, technically, I've been down in Florida since mid-December. Still, it's far greater exposure than I get back home in Maine.;-) (There's not a whole lot of Ebonics in Maine but there are some young white folks who give it an effort. It's an amusing effort but at least they're trying... I'm an optimist today.)
So, I decided I wasn't missing anything and that's when I figured I'd ask. I'm open to getting bizarre answers. I'm quite fond of them. Ah well... Hopefully the server's finished migrating and I can find another way to amuse myself.
Yeah, they're kind of getting there but nothing quite right. I'd seen the latter picture - the one with Slash in it but not the two phones. They appear washed out - for lack of a better phase. I'd like to see more images of the concept that they had for the ruggedized e-Reader. That interests me, a lot. For my purposes, which would be a dashboard, the speedometers look like they'd do the trick.
Off-topic: I'd like to do a whole dashboard in nothing but touch-pads, ala tablets, and having them in e-ink would be much better for a whole host of reasons. It'd be nice, however, to use a 'dashboard' of your own choosing and to actually use said 'dashboards' as a dashboard.;-) But, being able to flip from various screens would be great - with presets and memories and the ability to control the information pushed to the HUD. (I'm growing fond of the HUD in the new BMW, I liked it at first but now I'm really starting to like it - you can use it with little distraction - to the point where it is less distraction than the normal methods of checking instrumentation readouts. Though the pedestrian and animal alerts are sometimes a bit more aggressive than I'd prefer.)
At any rate, it's interesting to see where it goes. I doubt that it will ever reach the level of Ultra High Resolution but I can think of lots of things (like D&D manuals) where it would be fantastic. I'm not too picky, not really. My monitor's not set to the highest resolution possible. I actually turn down the definition rate at YouTube by default. All I watch is documentaries and I don't really game. So, I'm quite fine with just 360 or whatever it is set at now. Yup, it is 360 - I have a tab open. Said tab is a documentary about an airplane that never went into production and was kind of hidden from public view - the Arrow (in Canada) and the documentary was made in 1978 or so. HD really doesn't do it any favors.;-)
I'm not that picky. Though, for some art, the lack of colors might actually be a benefit. Some of them were really fond of strong colors and not a whole lot of them. I could see it working for, say, Baum's Batman. A certain "Je nest cest quas?" (I have no idea if that's spelled even remotely correctly. An art critic I am not.)
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You know that it was the personal computer, the same thing in the same box, that enabled the cellular phone that you're referencing? It is also those same sort of computers that, albeit in a different shaped box, enable that communication you speak of.
> These iFans have got their noses too close to their little screens.
They're looking to see if they can still pick out individual pixels.
If I may...
While it's great that you're close and can give personal anecdotes and even cite select figures, has it occurred to you that you're incapable of being objective? I'll also add that the news is generally only going to show you the bad because the normal, every-day, fairly standard stuff isn't really that interesting. It doesn't get eyeballs, excitement, or result in charged emotions.
Get out, travel the world. Most of all, visit America - if you want. Spend some time and actually meet some people.
Let's start with the number of people treated... Then, let's consider the types of treatments that are available? Then, let's consider cultural differences where one group may try to do everything to save an elderly person and the other is more stoic and realistic. Consider then the complexity of the newer and riskier procedures.
No system is perfect and it probably won't ever be perfect. I've stomped across the planet and seen a whole lot of it - in person and up close. The US system isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. There are a lot of improvements to be made but that's true everywhere. There's a reason that those who can afford it will often travel to the US for specialty care. That reason is because it's well documented that the care can be about the best on the planet.
I realize that the concept above, in that last sentence, sounds a bit barbaric but welcome to America. I say that the US system isn't as bad as it could be because there are really people here who'd be quite content to know that the poor people were getting no treatment at all. We're a very... Hmm... We're a very selfish people here but that's not universal. I'm a pretty hard-core Libertarian, for example, but I strongly support single-payer health care. I'm also big on personal responsibility and yeah, I guess that does mean that people have to accept the consequences of their choices. I'm okay with that, within reason.
So, there's more to the story and you don't look to be objective enough to actually be able to voice a valuable opinion. Yeah, it's great that you're involved and that you're really happy about your system (I notice there are some huge tonal differences between your first post and your replies - and it's okay - we're all nationalistic but eager to accuse others of it and refuse to see it in ourselves) but that actually means you're probably not really going to give an objective and accurate portrayal of your system. Note, really, the differences between your first comment and then the tone of your replies when called out by it by a fellow citizen.
It's okay... In all my travels I've learned one important thing. We're pretty much all just humans underneath.
The US still has the material wealth to pretend to be able to pay it - we've loads of national resources and the military might to silence critics if need be. Finland hasn't got that. I do seem to recall that Finland now has an oil industry but that it's not actually their oil - it's just getting refined there and it comes from Norway and Russia. So, there's that but they tell me oil's going to keep having production issues and the usage will continue to decrease.
Maybe that's what they're suggesting?
But yeah, the US has a whole bunch of resources left and, equally important, has been investing in military tech for a very long time. It's not polite to mention that but it is the reality. Also, don't blame me - I didn't do it. I'm just sharing the information.
> Until patient outcome has as much influence on medical practitioner compensation as mere throughput there will be no incentive for clinicians to up their game.
Then no doctors will undertake the riskier surgeries that are difficult and have a lower chance of success. Yup... Sounds like a good plan to me. Let's run with it!
(That's also a part of why the numbers are as high as they are. Yeah, you make more mistakes when you try difficult and new things. Imagine that.)
WTF? Do you think hospitalization is like Monopoly? "Medical Error in Your Favor, Collect 50 Hit Points!"
I just give mine a fist-full of antibiotics and enough opiates to make them settle down and not worry about anything.
Yes, yes I really am a doctor.
No, I'm not a medical doctor. I prescribe four quadratic equations and tell 'em to call me in the morning.
Lots of people like to point to the numbers instead of actually looking at the reasons and being honest. The medical professionals are also more willing to try riskier and newer things than they are in other countries. We also report our medical data differently than other countries.
That is not to say that it is good, that it is better, or that it is ideal but it is to say that it's a bit disingenuous to ignore the reality and just point to the numbers as if they alone are significant. Juxtaposition is also nice.
My best toys are in my basement! But yeah, I don't think most folks eat it - I was just bringing it up as a curiosity because I'd been told I was eating some in the past. I smoke cigars, used to drink heavily, eat very spicy foods, and consumed way too many opiates for a long time. So, when I say that I'm not the best judge of taste, I mean it. I was also crazy enough to enlist in the Marines, not once but twice. So, I'll eat anything at least once. There are only a few things I won't try a second time. However, taste isn't actually always a priority when I eat. I don't really have much of a sense of taste - or smell. (I've also crammed mounds of intoxicating substances up my nose over the years. I'm pretty sure that doesn't help.)
Hmm... Come to think of it, I'm sure I've done far stupider things and more damage that I'm just not recollecting.
But, the general idea is that I don't actually know if it was something that normal people would eat. The folks I'd eaten with that said it was homemade were rather ritzy folks and they don't necessarily eat the best of foods. They eat expensive foods but some of them are not things that I enjoy eating - which is saying something. Well, it is to me.
No, I have no idea how to describe what I'm trying to say...
Ah! An analogy. I'm partially color blind - progressively worse. I have no clue what colors you see and when you tell me it's a different color than what I see then I must defer to you.
Which is to say, I have no idea if homemade butter is any good but I'm under the impression that others liked it. The process looks simple enough.
Ah well... That's a really very muddy thing that I just said. Somewhere in all that gibberish - is a point. Good luck in finding it. I'm just gonna send it and pretend it never happened.
Actually...
Back in the late 1970s, I figured out a trick. I was enlisted in the Marines back then and we drank - a lot. Man, did we drink. Anyhow, we'd all be getting shitty and I'd ask one of my drinking buddies, "When was the last time you went pee?"
They'd look at you funny but they were off to the bathroom within five minutes. Done quietly, while moving from small group to small group, I could create a run on the bathroom. Drunken Marines, all having to piss and now angry, resulted in some of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I think the only appropriate thing for me to say is, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Check your settings, all of them. I've been reading Slashdot for a very long time and I check the post count on *every* thread that I read - and load all comments when the number is greater than the set amount (250 here). That has never, not one time, happened in any thread that I've read - in many, many years.
There are more than a few of us and I'm actually a Libertarian. I am not a Randian but I am a Libertarian. In fact, I've been with the party since about 1978. One of the many reasons I support Sanders is because his policies will be less expensive, overall, for the entirety.
Of course, there's a good chance that you don't know many Libertarians and have a crazy belief about the things most of us stand for. Though, to be fair, we do have some idiots in the party. I dare say that those idiots are not yet the majority.
> Just by gut, I'd say the typical (D) has a 30 point IQ advantage over the typical (R).
Then you should be all the more disgusted by them but you're not. Why not? Because you're a dishonest person.
Hmm... So, you're saying that IOT is idiot missing the id? Presumably, not the Wizard of Id but the other one... You might be on to something.
If they were smart, they'd not even take the cards - they'd just run them through a skimmer (I imagine you could hook one to a cell phone) and you'd never know when it happened. Best of all, they could keep coming back once they found a victim. When "their" new card comes working, they just come back and skim the replacement. Hell, if they had the balls they could do it at night while the victim was asleep.
I forget which but I'm sure Google knows. I'm also that lazy. However, I'm pretty sure Germany was one. You do not have mandatory service anymore in Germany but, when they did, you didn't go to prison for refusing to participate. Instead, you became ineligible for a variety of services including "free" continued education and things like that. I know there are a few like that and I think Germany was one of them. You don't actually go to prison or anything. You just don't get the benefits for living in the society that you refused to serve. Meh, it kind of makes sense. If I ponder it for too long then my hair starts to burn but I don't see that as necessarily being a bad thing. I see it as having potentially bad implementations but not necessarily bad by itself.
At any rate, it was on the news a couple of years ago. Germany abolished the need for service. And, unlike what someone above mentioned, there are far more countries besides the US and Canada that don't require mandatory service. The US can require mandatory service in times of war - that's the draft.
Google tells me you can make margarine at home and it looks to be pretty simple. Now, that's not what people usually consume but I figure a fact or two never hurt anyone. I was also curious because I've heard people mention homemade margarine before and have even consumed some. I'd assumed they were being honest and never thought about it beyond that. I'm usually a butter type of person but I'm not particularly picky or anything.
Or they weren't in a hurry. There's a lot to be said for low and slow.
I asked a Jew that question and they sent me a bunch of links about it - many of them leading to a StackExchange network site, as I recall. So, if you're interested in it then you can just hit up the Google and all will become clear. Or not... What it will do is let you know what the current thinking is. Basically, it's all good so long as the originating stock, should it come from one, was kosher and the originating stock material was butchered in the kosher manner.
If you know anything about Judaism then you'll also be aware that there's surely different views and that the approach will be different but the above is pretty consistent between the varied views. I should also mention that Jews don't have to starve themselves if there is, literally, no choice in the matter. Eating an unclean animal is acceptable (but not kosher!) if one believed that not doing so would result in death or great harm.
Like all religions, there's some variations and there are different degrees of dedication and adherence to the rules. Strangely enough, most people aren't really very binary.
Maybe my math is off but I'm pretty sure that, even in modern Western society, the government is responsible for far more human suffering and death than any corporate shenanigans. I have to wonder if you're just not being very honest with yourself or if you've got some math that I don't have access to.
It would appear that Google seems to think there are some - when I search for the phrase. There's even a shirt with it on it, and a hoodie. I didn't look - they might have been tongue in cheek.
Personally? I grow the majority of vegetables that I eat and I hunt or fish for much of the meat that I eat or, alternatively, I buy a half cow and a pig from the neighbor. I've the equipment to process and preserve it and I've learned how to use it effectively. I make serviceable cuts with game and domesticated meats. It's not as easy as it might look but so long as you've cleaned them properly the meat is still edible so mistakes are still tasty.
When I'm home, which is the majority of the time, almost none of my food comes from a store - not even my milk. I do not grow my own grains but I have thought about it. I just can't really justify the labor of the harvest or the purchase of the equipment but I have thought about seeing about an antique (25+ years - not that old) setup and learning how to operate it safely and effectively. I've also looked into, but not acted on, having my growth harvested by someone who doesn't live all that far away and has the equipment to do it. I could also grow corn in larger quantities if I did that. There's a mill not too far away so I could do grains like wheat and rye.
I do love my rice but I do not grow rice. I do grow potatoes - I grow a HUGE garden, to the point where I hire people to help with it. It's just not large enough to really justify bulky equipment and it is already quite labor intensive. So, I end up purchasing some potatoes come spring. I guess I can say that it's not a vegetable but that's not really proving anything other than a technicality. The gist being that I actually do know or grow much of my own food - inside and out, so to speak. I even have a variety of berries (don't get me started on berries) and some fruit trees though they're from a *very* old orchard that hasn't been (I forget the word) functional in a long time.
I found said orchard while hiking on some of the land I own and it turns out that it's quite old and there's even some information at the Historical Society down in the village. I own what was (is?) known as Piper's Pear Tree. The orchard has a variety of fruit, including some apples, and a few of the apple trees might be unknown as a specific species. The (fairly) local university has sent in people a couple of times and we're waiting for some more information to be provided.
What information? I'm glad you asked.
While I've shared this before, I don't mind typing it again. I had a arbor-dude come in and take a look. He cut it back and then came in for a couple more years and cut again. Supposedly, according to him - and he's the expert and I am not, I should have viable fruit trees in just a few more years now. Some of them are already fruiting but they're less than tasty at this point. I have not yet had one good piece of fruit. It appears that the cut (and thus the condition) actually has some bearing on the resulting fruit - in many, many ways and I don't mean just size. It should (ideally) be really good fruit in a few years longer than that. No, no I had no idea that it was anything like this. I am not a fruit tree expert and I don't even bother to pretend to be one online.
So, eventually I'll have my own fruit. I already have some blueberries but they're not nearly enough. (I'm also told I can burn the forest down and grow plenty of berries after that - that seems unwise but tempting.) Blueberries like shallow, rocky, acidic soil. Torch the trees on the side of the mountain and I should have berries. Tempting... Tempting indeed. So, for now, I pay people who live fairly close for their fruits. It's a long story.
At any rate, they do not know what the apple trees are. Not yet, not really. They'll be a bit different when they produce actual quality fruit. This fruit will actually be a bit different and almost certainly not sequenced or anything. The pear also appears to have been bred with at least
> Notice in my original post that I did not ...
Observation: Many people are inclined to not debate what you said but what they believe you to have said - even if you did not imply any such thing.
Hypothesis: I'm being polite today so draw your own conclusions.
Seriously, I'm not actually sure what motivates people to do so. It's hardly conducive to a quality exchange of information. It doesn't even "win" anything. I'd like to imagine I'm not but I suspect that I'm guilty of engaging in the behavior though I do make an effort to avoid it. If I'm "right" all the time then I'm not really learning anything.
Oh, don't apologize to me. LOL It's all good - I was just sort of baffled. I've seen you post before and I'd tell you if I thought you were an idiot. So, I was actually wondering what the hell it was that I was missing. I read it (including the gibberish you responded to) a half dozen times in my effort to figure it out. I was wondering if I was missing something in the Ebonics. However, surprising though it may be, I'm actually sort of fluent in understanding (I guess I could speak it) a number of regional Ebonics dialects. I travel a lot and I find dialects and accents fascinating - I have also been "on the road" since September of last year (2015) so I've had the chance to get a bit of a refresher.
Though, technically, I've been down in Florida since mid-December. Still, it's far greater exposure than I get back home in Maine. ;-) (There's not a whole lot of Ebonics in Maine but there are some young white folks who give it an effort. It's an amusing effort but at least they're trying... I'm an optimist today.)
So, I decided I wasn't missing anything and that's when I figured I'd ask. I'm open to getting bizarre answers. I'm quite fond of them. Ah well... Hopefully the server's finished migrating and I can find another way to amuse myself.
Yeah, they're kind of getting there but nothing quite right. I'd seen the latter picture - the one with Slash in it but not the two phones. They appear washed out - for lack of a better phase. I'd like to see more images of the concept that they had for the ruggedized e-Reader. That interests me, a lot. For my purposes, which would be a dashboard, the speedometers look like they'd do the trick.
Off-topic: I'd like to do a whole dashboard in nothing but touch-pads, ala tablets, and having them in e-ink would be much better for a whole host of reasons. It'd be nice, however, to use a 'dashboard' of your own choosing and to actually use said 'dashboards' as a dashboard. ;-) But, being able to flip from various screens would be great - with presets and memories and the ability to control the information pushed to the HUD. (I'm growing fond of the HUD in the new BMW, I liked it at first but now I'm really starting to like it - you can use it with little distraction - to the point where it is less distraction than the normal methods of checking instrumentation readouts. Though the pedestrian and animal alerts are sometimes a bit more aggressive than I'd prefer.)
At any rate, it's interesting to see where it goes. I doubt that it will ever reach the level of Ultra High Resolution but I can think of lots of things (like D&D manuals) where it would be fantastic. I'm not too picky, not really. My monitor's not set to the highest resolution possible. I actually turn down the definition rate at YouTube by default. All I watch is documentaries and I don't really game. So, I'm quite fine with just 360 or whatever it is set at now. Yup, it is 360 - I have a tab open. Said tab is a documentary about an airplane that never went into production and was kind of hidden from public view - the Arrow (in Canada) and the documentary was made in 1978 or so. HD really doesn't do it any favors. ;-)
I'm not that picky. Though, for some art, the lack of colors might actually be a benefit. Some of them were really fond of strong colors and not a whole lot of them. I could see it working for, say, Baum's Batman. A certain "Je nest cest quas?" (I have no idea if that's spelled even remotely correctly. An art critic I am not.)
But yeah, it looks like they're getting there.