or 10secs on google.

SLP: Speech and Language Pathologist
AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Some (most?) of the world's major religions, and most legal jurisdictions, emphatically do _not_ provide for a patient, even terminally ill, to make that decision and to action it (themselves or by proxy). That's a lot of humans you are condemning (ok, some of them are politicians and religious leaders who won;t change rules to match what is now the majority viewpoint, but still).

Some people think that, for instance, those who work for Dignitas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignitas_(assisted_dying_organisation)) are horrible people, precisely because they work to enable the patient to "get to decide that herself".

Maybe you are thinking it's ok the other way round, i.e. the patient can decide to live - but it's one and the same decision (keep me alive or let me die), and in most places it's not the patient's decision to make.

Seconded. Stroke prognosis, especially so soon, is a gamble at best and I believe brain stem stroke is doubly so (and this isn't even a straightforward one of those given tumour involved). I've had a relative have a severe brain stem stroke, so have some personal knowledge.

How much recovery she will get is unknown - even a year from now. Don't believe doctors if they say there is no hope of further improvement - do believe the ones who just say they don't know.. Because they don't.

Don't bother investing time and energy in fancy tech solutions now. Seriously. You have no idea what capabilities will be in a week let alone a month - your tech could be irrelevant by then and the time and effort the patient spends learning it would be better used, at this point, in learning / re-wiring brain to breathe again (for a start). The time to look at assistance tech is months down the line when the motor capabilities have more or less settled (but may still change for the better - see above about not giving up hope). For now I would guess that simple blink charts, that someone suggested further up the page, are your best bet.

Secondly, do not think you can solve the tiredness, or increase the useful communication time, with tech. Fatigue (chronic) is very common in stroke victims, but I don't think it is like "normal" fatigue, walking may tire them, eating may tire them, talking may tire them - but just sitting listening may tire them just as much. Basically, understand that her useful interaction time, before she _needs_ to sleep, _may_ be measured in minutes - and that that _may_ be permanent no matter how far the recovery of motor control gets. You, as a family, need to work out how to cope with that - but it's people not tech. I don't think anyone knows why stroke victims are often so tired, but we don't know how the brain re-wires itself either, we just know that in some stroke victims it does. Some think that the brain uses sleep time to re-wire - join the dots... but it's just speculation.

Amen. It's not a bug - it's a big fat feature, very useful and very dangerous also.

Confucius probably say: He who think big gun always better than small gun, blow whole f***ing leg off.

Guess it depends where you are. Here, I haven't had anything other than effectively unlimited-texts plan for years, even on very cheap feature phone plans. In fact I think even some of our old payg sims have an unlimited texts option if we top up enough each month (don't know - they are only now in kids' / emergency spare phones).
Minutes and data, on the other hand, are always limited (at easy to hit limits) unless you pay a lot more.

Well we might be quite a lot closer to Russia soon...

And at the supposed "clear up" after accidentally dropping nukes at Palomares in Spain. Where it has since been discovered that they just dug some shallow trenches and buried a pile of plutonium. Guess they hoped no one would ever notice...

Torn between saying mod parent up, and pointing out that SLS was actually the alternative to MCC Interim, which itself was the wimpy cop-out alternative to H.J Lu's boot-root from back when men were real men and floppies were actually floppy...

[Mod or post, mod or post, ah feck it - post. Someone else mod parent up.]

And to add to that, the vast majority of the world's ATMs actually run.... Windows XP. Yes, they do, google it (plenty of articles) if you don't believe.
Replacement cost for most of the ATM network would be enormous.

Then there's point-of-sale stuff...

So sure yes, let's pull all the plugs on Win XP systems like the article says - just give me a chance to get to the supermarket and the gun store first.

If the land can be used for farming but not houses because of infrasound, then it is still uninhabitable. Further, if there are no houses there is typically little energy demand in the area, therefore you need long distance interconnect which brings its own environmental concerns - e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/env...

Offshore wind marine environment damage is an EU concern, not mine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

Oh, and oil rigs can be havens for _some_ marine life too... doesn't mean oil is environment benefit overall.

From Saharan Africa ? HVDC lines and... cut.

Might have worked in the colonial days when Europe was in charge in Africa, but right now or anytime soon, no chance at all. Even buying Russian gas through Ukraine will be several times more stable.

Technologies existed to prevent Fukushima and Chernobyl decades before they actually happened. They weren't used. Why ? Cost.

Technologies exist to make solar panel mfr clean - but we buy them from China where it isn't used, Why ? Cost.

Same with wind in fact - older broken turbines are left to rot and pollute the landscape, why ? Cost. Costs too much to fix them it's uneconomic, because they generate so little. So why are we building new ones ? Cost - or rather subsidy.

Wind takes 100+ sq miles to produce the same as one nuclear plant (1 sq mile) - and infrasound issues are still not well understood, but talk to affected people and it appears you are making most of that 100+ sq miles uninhabitable by humans. Infrasound effect on wildlife is unknown - maybe the critters don't get ill like people do, or maybe we'll just pretend it's not a problem by doing no research on it so there is no scientific information that it is bad...

Or maybe we'll put the wind generation offshore instead at several times the cost (er. subsidy), and pretend that all the subsea construction etc. does no damage to the marine environment. And when the offshore turbines die, we'll remove them cleanly using the money from the decommissioning fund we made the developers set up in the first place. Or maybe our kids will just have to pay for that (like nuclear).

Whatever you do, there is a financial cost and an environmental one, and a trade off between the two. And if anything is consistent across all the energy generation methods, it's that we pay less to do it dirtier.

TANSTAAFL. Coal and oil are pretty good at rendering large areas uninhabitable. Water (tidal and hydro) is pretty good at major ecosystem change and rendering areas uninhabitable. Wind and solar might look like ok in the area of _deployment_, but if you look at the manufacturing... [ok, I'll save you googling it, here's one that took me all of 30secs to find: http://www.worldwatch.org/node... ]

Does depend a little bit on which books you count as recorded history vs. fiction, and how you interpret the descriptions. E.g. "fire and sulphur rained from heaven" could be volcano - unless you believe the writers' culture would have known what a volcano was and would have said "from the mountain".

I believe OneNote is available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Win Phone, and Linux if installed the right way: https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

Not really tying you to one OS. Plus you can export in open formats - PDF, XPS and HTML at least.

Linking and embedding are different techniques with pros and cons, something like OneNote allows you to use either (or both) as appropriate rather than be tied down to a specific one. Guess you probably never, ever, move, rename, or edit your referenced files, and never want to put annotations over your referenced image, and never need to search your notes including the not-embedded references (or are happy to open up each reference and search it separately). For other users who do have some of those requirements, text files won't cut it.