Explain all the thin, old people with type II, then.
Really, I'm sick of this "lose a little weight and the diabetes is gone ingorance. Type II is not fully understood, and is made worse by primarily two things:
1) Weight 2) Time.
Even a thin person who has type II, or a type II who loses all of their excess fat, will worsen with age.
Cause? Or correlation? Some recent research suggests that, in people with so-called metabolic syndrome, the real problem might be systemic inflammation. Systemic inflammation = increased blood fats, increased blood pressure, decreased insulin response, and weight gain.
We really don't understand type II diabetes so well just yet. Type I, we do. Some suggest that type II patients who are obese might be obese because of the diabetes, not have the diabetes because they're obese. I'm not giving them a free pass, but people like you are the reason there's no ribbon for lung cancer -- you think people deserve these diseases. The first question people ask when someone gets lung cancer? "How long did they smoke?" For some of them the answer is, "They didn't."
Maybe the world isn't quite as simple as you think.
1) You are sued in some obscure Hong Kong court. 2) You show up and say "Let's move this to a higher Hong Kong court." 3) They move the case. 4) Argue jurisdiction in *that* court.
Bottom line, it's always a bad idea to ignore a court. The real problem here is that their US attorneys had the case removed to federal court, and then their UK attorneys suggested that the US court had no jurisdiction. Rather than getting both sets of lawyers together and determining the best legal strategy to employ, they just quit.
1) Spamhaus is used in Illinois court. 2) They APPEAR in court, and request that the case be moved to federal court, as IL does not have jurisdiction. 3) The case IS moved to federal court. 4) Spamhaus stops showing up.
They requested the involvment of the federal district court. In your example, the defendant was never involved. Here, they were. If they had argued that the U.S. has no jurisdiction in IL, they probably would have won. Instead, they argued that the federal court had jusisdiction.
It's a little different than your Hong Kong example.
However, no US gov't employee could be said to have been negligent here. Spamhaus neglected to defend themselves in court, so default judgement was entered against them. The Federal Tort Claims act most likely doesn't apply (but, IANAL.)
They're not talking about an implanted pump. Insulin pumps are available today. Also available today, although not-quite-ready-for-prime-time, are continuous blood glucose monitoring systems -- instead of spot-checking six times a day, the CGMSen check constantly (well, every 10 minutes or so).
The current research is all about connecting the CGMS to the (external, clipped to your belt, looks like a pager) insulin pump.
Yeah, Kerry really let that one go by. Shame, too. I didn't particularly like either candidate, but Kerry should have rounded on Bush and said, "The white-collar workers losing their jobs already have a college education. What will you do for them?"
Bush gave a 1980/1900's, manufacturing-going-to-Mexico answer. It would have worked if he was his father, debating Perot and Clinton in 1992. It doesn't work now.
Microsoft invested $150 million in non-voting Apple stock. They have long since sold it all. $150 million.
At the time, Apple had cash on hand of around $1 billion. They were not making money, but they were a long fucking way from shutting down. Only those who weren't paying attention would call that a bailout.
The actual reason MS 'invested' was as part of a settlement of several lawsuits (going in both directions, if I remember correctly), related to - I think - Quicktime and illegal bundling of / anticompetitive practices regarding Windows Media.
Or he could, you know, use the Mac he already owns...
and I'm interested in what it might take to stream my local FM stations to the Windows, Unix and Mac boxes in my house over my LAN, as well as my TiVo and Slim Devices SqueezeBox. Is this merely a pipe-dream?
O'Conner's retirement is actually much more important than if Rehnquist had retired; on a pretty wide array of social policies, i.e. abortion and affirmative action, O'Conner has been the swing vote in the 5-4 decisions. Rehnquist, on the other hand, tends to vote conserative, period. Slashdotters might be pleased to know she was a key vote in the challenge to the President to arbitrarily detain individuals w/out review:
"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested," she wrote last year for the court in the Iraq-war era case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. "And it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad. . . . We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens." ~ taken from the Washington Post article today.
Actually, you should read Scalia's dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. He contended that the US government had no authority at all to hold a citizen at Guantanamo.
Yes and no. "Happy Birthday" was copyrighted, but by an author/composer. So ASCAP intervened, not the RIAA, to force us to listen to the crappy knock-offs (ASCAP was speaking for the author.)
The RIAA would have intervened if the restaurants had been playing a recording of "Happy Birthday", on behalf of the performer.
>As for interesting classical, Debussey's > Pictures at an Exhibition is a good piece. It > sounds like it is story being told with music.
Sorry to nitpick - I'm actually a classically trained composer (that Master's collects dust like you wouldn't believe) - Modetse Moussorgsky wrote PAaE. Debussy orchestrated it; the original was actually for solo piano (check out that original - it's sweet. Get the recording of Sviatoslav Richter playing it.)
They do have a release form. But they'll still piss and moan about making your copies - they won't believe you're the legitimate copyright holder.
I'm a techie now, but my master's is in music (composition). In college, all of the composers had trouble with the local copy shops - they, like most people, seem to think that all non-popular (i.e. orchestral, choral, etc.) music was written by dead white guys.
I'm pretty sure MAME will handle the screen flipping for you. In the configuration screen for each game you want to play (accessed through the tab key), just set the mode to cocktail.
Of course, this will only work for games that had a cocktail mode to begin with...
It really isn't. Tiny blood vessels begin growing in the back of the eye, in front of the retina. They are not terribly strong, and, aside from obscuring vision (they're in *front* of the retina now), tend to break off and float around in the eye. Eventually, the 'floaters' obscure vision entirely in the affected eye. Laser treatment can destroy some of these new growths, which can delay blindness.
The *other* mainfestation of retinopathy in diabetics, where the existing blood vessels break open and leak blood into the vitreous humour, is also treatable with laser surgery.
Laser surgery in both cases is little more than triage, preventing blindness temporarily. Both conditions can be temporarily reversed through a surgical process called vitrectomy, where the vitreous humour is extracted and replaced with clear fluid (saline? I can't remember...). The root cause of the blindness is *not* corrected by vitrectomy, however.
The DCCT (diabetes complications and control test) showed that a pattern of low glycosylated hemoglobin (sp?) results (in th 5.5-6.5 range) can delay complications for a significant period of time. But in the end, if the other complications of diabetes don't kill the diabetic first, blindness will probably come a' knockin'.
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Explain all the thin, old people with type II, then.
Really, I'm sick of this "lose a little weight and the diabetes is gone ingorance. Type II is not fully understood, and is made worse by primarily two things:
1) Weight
2) Time.
Even a thin person who has type II, or a type II who loses all of their excess fat, will worsen with age.
Nice troll. Really.
Cause? Or correlation? Some recent research suggests that, in people with so-called metabolic syndrome, the real problem might be systemic inflammation. Systemic inflammation = increased blood fats, increased blood pressure, decreased insulin response, and weight gain.
We really don't understand type II diabetes so well just yet. Type I, we do. Some suggest that type II patients who are obese might be obese because of the diabetes, not have the diabetes because they're obese. I'm not giving them a free pass, but people like you are the reason there's no ribbon for lung cancer -- you think people deserve these diseases. The first question people ask when someone gets lung cancer? "How long did they smoke?" For some of them the answer is, "They didn't."
Maybe the world isn't quite as simple as you think.
Even better would be:
1) You are sued in some obscure Hong Kong court.
2) You show up and say "Let's move this to a higher Hong Kong court."
3) They move the case.
4) Argue jurisdiction in *that* court.
Bottom line, it's always a bad idea to ignore a court. The real problem here is that their US attorneys had the case removed to federal court, and then their UK attorneys suggested that the US court had no jurisdiction. Rather than getting both sets of lawyers together and determining the best legal strategy to employ, they just quit.
Bad idea.
Follow the actual story:
1) Spamhaus is used in Illinois court.
2) They APPEAR in court, and request that the case be moved to federal court, as IL does not have jurisdiction.
3) The case IS moved to federal court.
4) Spamhaus stops showing up.
They requested the involvment of the federal district court. In your example, the defendant was never involved. Here, they were. If they had argued that the U.S. has no jurisdiction in IL, they probably would have won. Instead, they argued that the federal court had jusisdiction.
It's a little different than your Hong Kong example.
However, no US gov't employee could be said to have been negligent here. Spamhaus neglected to defend themselves in court, so default judgement was entered against them. The Federal Tort Claims act most likely doesn't apply (but, IANAL.)
Sovereign Immunity
Good luck.
I'm not defending Feng Shui per se, but isn't it possible that, mystical horseshit aside, the principles therein can result in a functional layout?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_pump
They're not talking about an implanted pump. Insulin pumps are available today. Also available today, although not-quite-ready-for-prime-time, are continuous blood glucose monitoring systems -- instead of spot-checking six times a day, the CGMSen check constantly (well, every 10 minutes or so).
The current research is all about connecting the CGMS to the (external, clipped to your belt, looks like a pager) insulin pump.
This is nothing like an artificial heart.
Yeah, Kerry really let that one go by. Shame, too. I didn't particularly like either candidate, but Kerry should have rounded on Bush and said, "The white-collar workers losing their jobs already have a college education. What will you do for them?"
Bush gave a 1980/1900's, manufacturing-going-to-Mexico answer. It would have worked if he was his father, debating Perot and Clinton in 1992. It doesn't work now.
Insightful? Really?
Microsoft invested $150 million in non-voting Apple stock. They have long since sold it all. $150 million.
At the time, Apple had cash on hand of around $1 billion. They were not making money, but they were a long fucking way from shutting down. Only those who weren't paying attention would call that a bailout.
The actual reason MS 'invested' was as part of a settlement of several lawsuits (going in both directions, if I remember correctly), related to - I think - Quicktime and illegal bundling of / anticompetitive practices regarding Windows Media.
Or he could, you know, use the Mac he already owns...
and I'm interested in what it might take to stream my local FM stations to the Windows, Unix and Mac boxes in my house over my LAN, as well as my TiVo and Slim Devices SqueezeBox. Is this merely a pipe-dream?
Actually, come to think of it, I've yet to encounter an ERP system that actually works.
MFG/Pro, from QAD, inc. actually works pretty well. But it uses PROGRESS for a database engine, which just isn't too common these days.
Actually, you should read Scalia's dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. He contended that the US government had no authority at all to hold a citizen at Guantanamo.
Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin. He was the only Senator who voted against it, anyway (not sure about the House).
Yes and no. "Happy Birthday" was copyrighted, but by an author/composer. So ASCAP intervened, not the RIAA, to force us to listen to the crappy knock-offs (ASCAP was speaking for the author.)
The RIAA would have intervened if the restaurants had been playing a recording of "Happy Birthday", on behalf of the performer.
>As for interesting classical, Debussey's
> Pictures at an Exhibition is a good piece. It
> sounds like it is story being told with music.
Sorry to nitpick - I'm actually a classically trained composer (that Master's collects dust like you wouldn't believe) - Modetse Moussorgsky wrote PAaE. Debussy orchestrated it; the original was actually for solo piano (check out that original - it's sweet. Get the recording of Sviatoslav Richter playing it.)
They do have a release form. But they'll still piss and moan about making your copies - they won't believe you're the legitimate copyright holder.
I'm a techie now, but my master's is in music (composition). In college, all of the composers had trouble with the local copy shops - they, like most people, seem to think that all non-popular (i.e. orchestral, choral, etc.) music was written by dead white guys.
I'm pretty sure MAME will handle the screen flipping for you. In the configuration screen for each game you want to play (accessed through the tab key), just set the mode to cocktail.
Of course, this will only work for games that had a cocktail mode to begin with...
It really isn't. Tiny blood vessels begin growing in the back of the eye, in front of the retina. They are not terribly strong, and, aside from obscuring vision (they're in *front* of the retina now), tend to break off and float around in the eye. Eventually, the 'floaters' obscure vision entirely in the affected eye. Laser treatment can destroy some of these new growths, which can delay blindness.
The *other* mainfestation of retinopathy in diabetics, where the existing blood vessels break open and leak blood into the vitreous humour, is also treatable with laser surgery.
Laser surgery in both cases is little more than triage, preventing blindness temporarily. Both conditions can be temporarily reversed through a surgical process called vitrectomy, where the vitreous humour is extracted and replaced with clear fluid (saline? I can't remember...). The root cause of the blindness is *not* corrected by vitrectomy, however.
The DCCT (diabetes complications and control test) showed that a pattern of low glycosylated hemoglobin (sp?) results (in th 5.5-6.5 range) can delay complications for a significant period of time. But in the end, if the other complications of diabetes don't kill the diabetic first, blindness will probably come a' knockin'.