Yeah, you best hope a stent doesn't cause a clot either, or you don't react poorly to the clot medication, or get yourself hurt while on it...
Restenosis is going to occur with any stent. The endothelial cells that keep plaque from accumulating are long gone by the time we can detect the issue. Until a vessel is 90% stenotic, it will effectively flow the same. You can postpone restenosis with drug eluting stents, which have been in use for a long time now. The elution distance is not very far, so this type of treatment does not cause systemic issues with blood not clotting like taking oral medications.
If the electronics in this stent can give flow information, then it also has the advantage of the patient not needing to go back into the Cath lab to have a catheter fished through their femoral artery to verify it. Which carries it's own set of risks. In the last few years, it has become possible to use CT to check this, but there is the radiation exposure, and a margin for error involved with that. Plus I don't know if that's become something insurance will pay for.
Backyard Brains, a small company notable for turning cockroaches into cyborgs.
Get the cyborg cockroaches to scavenge for parts and start converting other cockroaches into cyborgs too. Once you have enough, you demand "One Billion Dollars" from the governments of the world, or risk being invaded by terminator roaches.
What could possibly go wrong?
The government argued that a laptop was simply a "container,"
They x-rayed it and it obviously wasn't full of explosives and it's not a liquid container of 3 ounces (or less) in a "one quart sized, clear plastic bag".
If they can prove that the files on the computer can somehow explode and be an imminent threat to the flight he was on, I might agree with the TSA. Otherwise I hope this judges decision is upheld. It would be a nice baby step toward having our constitutional rights restored.
By now all of the air would have leaked out of the tires.
Done be silly. In the neighborhood they parked it, it's probably sitting on blocks because someone stole the rims. Just think how cool those 32's look on a BMW 325.
Ive dated a lot of women who it turns out are looking for the "cowboy" type or the "biker" type or the "go chiefs" type. And are unhappy with me because i havent subscribed to any of these store-bought personality templates.
I prefer to just be who i am. A multifaceted individual with a wide variety of interests and hobbies.
Women HATE that.
Here's the thing. Women are just as screwed up as men. However, in a slightly different way.
Most women are initially attracted to 'the "cowboy" type or the "biker" type or the "go chiefs" type'. Though I'm not sure if it's an inherent thing, or learned. But they almost never want you to actually be that way long term. They want to turn you into that "multifaceted individual", not actually be that way from the start.
Don't get me wrong, as men, we're just as screwed up as to what we're attracted to and what we want too.
Did you happen to hear that whoosh?
Hint: It wasn't from a stray round.
I don't take much stock in this story due to such a small sample size, limited history, and that the numbers over the history of it don't even show a trend at this point.
Still, the "mystery" of IT has been diminishing for years as most people are at least familiar with computers now. The days of the BOFH are more or less over. So most people have a hard time accepting "I can't do what you want because digital Zeus says it can't be done". Everyone needs their own phone, OS, program, or whatever.
The younger generations are also always lazier than the older ones. It was true when the baby-boomers were young, then gen-x, and now millenilals. In some ways it's true. It takes a few years to develop a good work ethic. But it's often that the newest generation just has a different way of doing things because they view the world differently.
I got my wife a Roomba vacuum robot 6 or 7 years ago. She admitted to me that at first she thought it was a waste of money. But after using it for a day or two, she changed her mind completely. We set it up to clean the first floor of our house at night. We just got a Neato BotVac series one this week. It's a big improvement over the older Roomba.We still run the upright vacuum cleaner every couple of weeks. But in a house with three large dogs, it would be a daily chore w/o the robot vacuums. It's not Rosie the robot, but they are a time saver for us.
I think my daughter was a little disappointed. She was expecting to be able to have a conversation with the Roomba one. Or at least R2D2 level of responses.
Like I said, it may never happen. But if it comes to pass that rotten dinosaurs are no longer a viable option, we may launch big fucking computer tracked magnifying glasses into orbit to focus enough energy to make it possible. Or use orbital solar powered lasers, or microwave transmission. We could do the same from the ground, it's probably less likely to cook the general population if it's coming from the ground.
Powered flight in heavier than air craft wasn't possible 150 years ago. Just look at all of the advances there have been in that time. Who knows what the next 150 years will bring.
And that's why I finished my post with the following: "It's probably not a practical solution currently. But as efficiencies increase, it's at least feasible it may be at some point in the future."
Battery tech has also been improving recently. There's no reason that it may become much lighter in the future and a combination of PV and batteries may become practical. It's also entirely possible that PV will never reach the necessary efficiencies and batteries don't reach the energy density necessary. That's why I said "may" in both cases.
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton
