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He need to practice then with the left. It's called multi-tasking That way you can switch hands and pick up a stroke. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Possibly the ability to remain cool, calm, and collected when the shit hits the fan and all those around you panic. I've never been one to panic; but that characteristic is even more pronounced now. My mantra, as printed in bold letters on The Good Book: DON'T PANIC. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

When you find yourself in a hole the first thing you should do is stop digging. Do you have any idea what is a fair market price for a tandem in different parts of the country and using different aircraft? While you are entitled to your opinion it should have some basis in fact before you start slamming what others do. And yes with your style maybe you should stay in “bonfire”. Sparky And what exactly does that insinuate about those of us who enjoy . . . The Speaker's Corner. (Said in the tone that the voice guy used to introduce The People's Court). " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Phrysbertarian myself. Soul got hung up on the barn roof and I can't get it down. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I was going to mention that comparison in my story about participating in one of these; but figured I'd get flamed for exxageration. But that is what it was like. A mob outright sprinting thru the store (self included), and knocking over anything in their way. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I think it will depend on how they promoted it. I took part in one of Dayton's warehouse sales once (dating myself) and it was openly promoted as a free for all. They advertised a set small number of items (VHS players, that normally sold for about $300 each - really dating myself) at a price of $50. I got there about an hour before they opened and was in about the 4th or 5th row of the crowd. When the person with the keys showed up there was a good amount of joking in the crowd about the person turning the key being in danger. I timed a couple thrown elbows and dipped shoulders perfectly with the door swinging open and was already up to about 10th place just a couple steps in. A forearm shiver or two, and a couple hip checks later and it was me and a 3 others leading the sprint down the main aisle. We reached the display well ahead of the pack. There were a couple dozen players laid out on 2 or 3 banquet tables. A quick grab of whatever looked cool was all we had time for because the pack was closing in. We just kind of instinctively stepped back and WHAM! You should have seen the melee when the main pack (probably about 100 people) hit those tables for the remaining 20 or so players. It was like a rugby scrum; maybe more like a ruck & mall. People crawling and clawing over the top of each other, and every couple seconds someone would emerge from the pile with a machine. Absolute mayhem. Long story short (I always promise but rarely deliver), Dayton's realized the danger of these things after a couple minor injuries and stopped doing them long before they became Fields. IMO, if they advertised this as a bull rush for a small number of bargain priced goodies; they share the guilt. One last thought. What was the person opening the door thinking? Would you turn the key in front of a large group of obese mouth-breathing bargain hunters, all strongly incented to save half of last week's pay; not to mention the prestige of being the first on the block to own the latest mass-produced electronic opiate? Not me. At that point you turn to the boss and say "Here, you open the door." " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Or maybe the Easter Bunny. Any rabbit that can lay eggs can sure as heck make a universe. Don't be ridiculous. He doesn't lay the eggs. Where do you get your information? The Easter Bunny is just a pass-thru; with a little value add with the nice colors. Chickens lay the eggs; Easter Bunny collects, boils, colors, and distributes them. Says so in this book my kids have. And it has pictures. Well, drawings anyway. And I'm just assuming on the boiling. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Holy Obfuscation Batman! Gravitational mathematics is an imaginary entity. What? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

That's some really different stuff than I remember reading. Have to go back and look again; I might have 2 things mixed up because I could swear I read (in Hawking's book and elsewhere) that Hawking radiation IS how a black hole would evaporate, that it has never been observed, and that it would not happen for a long long time because it would require that the Universe cool to many orders of magnitude below it's current temperature. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I was reading some stuff not long ago on child development that included info on how much hard wiring went on in the brain all the way thru the teenage years as a possible explanation of why teens are the way they are. The wiring isn't complete until well after reaching legal adulthood - an interesting paradox. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I'm waiting for the I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I post. That will confirm my suspicions that we have been invaded by prepubescents. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Exactly. And contrary to what the Black Helicopter Crowd thinks; there is not a humongous MIB database that insurance companies use to share everybody's info in some sort of health history orgy of information. Ever heard of HIPAA? There are various projects that involve sharing of cleansed information on treatment protocols and outcomes and stuff like that (often mandated by regulators/legislators) but insurance companies are not sending your records to MIB. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

That is really a moot point since on any plan you must qualify for you are supposed to disclose all info anyway. So you are saying you are against EMR because it might end up catching you in a lie on an application. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

You got that right. In the clinic I go to, a relatively good sized facility; those big motorized rotating file cabinets are open during all hours the clinic is. They are not locked away in some vault with only 1 person having keys and bringing just that days records up from the crypt. They are behind the nurse/reception station, but really just lined up in open areas right off the hallways. Janitors, patients, every single employee - everybody walks within arms reach of them. Shit, I wouldn't doubt that every admin asst, med asst, and who knows what other assts have keys. And when the clinic is operating full tilt anybody not acting squirrely could easily walk up to those cabinets, grab a pile of files and walk away completely unnoticed. And what is with the files hanging in the little bin outside the door (totally unattended) while I wait half an hour for the second time each visit. Yep, paper files are about as secure as US Mail. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It's about the technology, the process of privacy and who has the keys to the kingdom. Please don't tell me that you believe PM's really are. What's a PM? Is that medical record jargon I'm not familiar with? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I think weekend before last it was Da Bears. Yesterday, I'm not sure. Football is a game for pussies anyway. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Absolute gibberish, all thoroughly debunked so many times that it is pathetic for people to continue clinging to it. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Just because a singularity is a mathematical concept does not preclude said concept from including the characteristics that would it define it as a typre of black hole. I'd agree that one has never been observed, and would contend one will never be observed; but the fact that it is a mathematical concept does not logically preclude it from being, nor include it, as a type of black hole. Other characterisitcs, once observed, may include or exclude it from such classification; but just being a concept does not. The radiation you speak of is not Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is theorized as coming wholly from inside a black hole; from beyond the event horizon. What you mention is one half of a particle pair disappearing over the event horizon, and the other never crossing it (and thus being observed). That is not Hawking radiation, and Hawking radiation has never been onserved. I'll give you that we can measure the spin, charge, and temperature. My point still stands that such information will not help you determine what went in (or what came before - be it a donkey, hot fudge sundae, or God) a black hole; much less a singularity (theorized as being at the center of at least some black holes). You end your post with an interesting comment about singularities evaporating. Hawking has theorized that black holes evaporate, and that mechanism, yet to be observed, is Hawking radiation. It is not likely to be directly observed in our lifetime. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Neither paper or electronic records are perfectly secure. In one access is controlled by who has the keys to the cabinets, the other way access is controlled via roles and permissions stored electronically. IMO, if someone is really out to get a look at your records, it would be easier to get at the paper than the electronic version. And at least with electronic their is an audit trail. People were pretty paranoid about online communications in general when that first started too. And cars too. Cars were seen as really scary and a lot of smart people said they would never become accepted. New technology scares a lot of people at first. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I think it would be more accurate to say singularities are a type of black hole. Black holes have a singularity at their center, a singularity has no center. Singularities are by their definition black holes, but black holes are not singularities. They may contain one, but they are not one. The only information that is carried out of a black hole is the temperature of the energy being radiated. (I'm not talking about things that go up to the precipice of the event horizon and turn around). Not like you can look at the energy radiated out and say it was a car or a person or anything in particular before it went in. So the only information passed out of a black hole, much less a singularity, is temperature. If our Big Bang theory is correct (and it does appear very solid) and everything in our known Universe came from a singularity, there is no way to know what came prior to the singularity. All you can really know is that the singularity contained X amount of energy. It is the only "memory" there is for a singularity. There are also the limits of Planck time; but I think they are a moot point when confronted with the hard stop of information, the Great Eraser that is . . . Singularity " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It's something we don't know yet....but eventually we will, just like lightning, the northern lights, gravity, etc. Simply because we don't understand something yet, doesn't mean it's supernatural. .... .... science has no means of gathering evidence for any hypothesis related to what existed prior to our Universe attaining an age of about 1 X 10 to -43rd seconds.. I think you've basically walked into supporting stevebabin's point: it's not that science has no means of gathering such evidence, but that science DOES NOT YET have such means. By what means could information be collected from the other side of a singularity? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

In that case, the solution can easily be found in some well placed fireworks. Guaranteed to keep kitty cat away from that room for some time to come. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

This may sound gross, but you should carry the poop down to the litter box, put it in there then toss the little one in. That will help associate poop and pee in the same place/box. Better yet. Glue some of those googly eyes and a nose on it, attach some strings, and march the poop marionette-style from the old location to the new one, all the while singing some sort of cat poop ditty. Acoompaniment by a marching band is optional, but improves your chances of success. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

You're not expecting consistency amongst cats are you? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Correct, and other bits could come out too. A particle/anti-particle collision does not necessarily have to wipe out all of the bits of stuff and convert all of it to energy. Bill? Kallend? Anybody? Bueller? Anybody? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley