Vivtek

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by Vivtek 14y ago
Yes, of course. But the overall cultural assumption that science is something dangerous that Washington is pushing on the Real Americans is pretty powerful. And since that cultural assumption is a power base and a profit base, there are a
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This is probably one of those things that's really effective if you have working color vision, right?
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Because spam doesn't threaten anybody who counts. Next question?
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No. Just, no. The progress is freaking immense. Childhood leukemia used to be a death sentence - now? 95% survival. That's just one. My stepdad just got cured of prostate cancer, and no, not with weird-ass stuff either. Incremental p
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His wife fell to the floor one day with a previously unsuspected brain tumor while they were on sabbatical in Italy and died days later; Doug was left to raise their two children alone. I was always amazed he functioned at all, honestly. I
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I dunno, a private delivery contract to the ISS qualifies in my book. Maybe I am setting my sights too low. This is a tough crowd!
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So what you're saying is that Elon Musk isn't capable of revolutionizing two long-standing American industries (arguably the two long-standing American industries) at the same time, single-handedly and without help, and that this is evide
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Which starves the medical "industry" - an economic catastrophe, in American terms!
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I'm not sure I even understand your point. Bayer and Pfizer, for instance, do lots and lots of business in the US. His point is that Switzerland - like every industrialized nation in the world, with one exception - has a socialized health
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"everyone knows it" No, see - that's the problem. The vast majority of the electorate has no idea either that our system is broken or that other countries actually do things better - indeed, that it is even possible , in principle, to do
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The ability of people in the States to insist that our health care system is "the best in the world" because of the action of the free market while simultaneously not understanding why prices are thus important is what usually leads me to
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Yeah, that always bugged me about Holmes. He specifically restricted his fields of knowledge to things that could help him solve cases - so how did he know this in advance? He had encyclopedic knowledge of the muds of England, for example
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And your touching belief that they accept "better" people is endearing.
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Yes.
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Damn straight. /talented rural poor.
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Why in the world would the Ivy League want to reach out to the talented rural poor? They're only accepting 5-7% of the people who apply now - does anybody think they lack applicants?
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<i>If it were a prescribed liquid, they would have let him on no questions asked.</i> This is incompatible with juice just being silly - unless they test both the prescribed liquid and the juice for absence of explosives, th
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No, I agree with this and no ADD. I don't know what I'm looking at, it's too small to read what's being moved around - nice music, though. Very relaxing.
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It couldn't happen to nicer people... After my last upgrade of the Java virtual machine on my laptop, I found the installer had kindly installed the Ask toolbar on all my browsers, too. It left me with quite the bad taste in my mouth.
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Dear God. Now I have a quick fix for any time I feel like I need a dose of humility.
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Wow, that's a really mealymouthed response, isn't it?
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Today.
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Ah. Thank you for finally letting me realize the point of referrer spam (I've never left logs lying around in Net-accessible places and it boggles the mind that anybody would - bandwidth consumption if no other reason...)
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Aaand I just heard the death knell of H. sapiens domination of the planet.
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Oh, it's shared ...
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"Hacker" doesn't actually appear in the domain.
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My magnets keep drifting away while I try to position them.
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Oh dear God, 30 already? You've got one foot in the grave! People start things when they're 75, man, and succeed. The best time in your life to start anything is now .
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I'm thinking that in 10 or 20 years time nobody will care - because we'll all be equally guilty. That, or nobody will run for office anyway, just purchase it.
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If you don't mind a local backend that you access on the command line, you can host the blog itself (or any static site) directly on Github with no further ado. I recently moved my since-1997 site Vivtek.com to Github and freaking love it.

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