Hungary is, sadly, turning into authoritarian regime focused on maintaining the power of those at the top. Anything that feeds their spending habits is on the table, I'm sure. We should expect more news like that coming from Hungary
Replace 'Hungary' with pretty much any other country and you have a nice truism.
You can stop a pacemaker with a magnet near the chest wall. If you are one of those ** very few ** people who need a pacer to survive, you can get temporarily paced in the ER until they can put a new one in.
Surprisingly enough, people HAVE thought through most of this.
** most pacemakers work intermittently, some people need them all of the time. Pacers do fail, it's pretty rare but sometimes even the wonders of technology aren't enough to keep you alive.
On the face of it, sending un-trained US miltary personnel into the hot zone makes zero sense. So why might they have been sent?
The 101st and National Guard aren't being sent to mitigate the situation in Liberia et al. in any meaningful way. They're been sent for training.
Worst case scenario, if the virus causes serious disruption in the US, troops with Liberian experience will be used to train up stateside forces to back up health workers and quell unrest. As a bonus some of the surviving infected troops will have immunity to the virus.
OTOH, Maybe I'm giving Obola credit for a level of cynicism that isn't there. Maybe the administration really is the most incompetent in US history.
Or maybe, just maybe, the US military (or any functional military for that matter) has the only organization structure, money and manpower to deal with these sorts of major threats.
Don't you watch any televison?
I know!
Let's declare war on Ebola!
Nudity != sex. Sex implies the sexual act. I'm not a religious expert, but I believe finding sculptures of cherubs having sex is going to be difficult.
Oh, it's much worse than that
Perhaps that is why the FBI's approach always seems orthogonal to reality.
Now with even less privacy!!!
They can already triangulate you anyway based off cell tower data, along with any number of phone-home apps that you joyfully agreed to the EULA.
Even I'm not seeing a privacy correlation between barometric pressure and YOU (adjusts tin-foil hat)
Now they can tell how high you are.
Presbyopia and Helvetica. A miserable combination.
Getting old is not for the weak.
I understand most of the other guys, but who is 'Inter Alia"?
No, it and of itself won't be meaningful. That's the crowdsource bit.
OK, for all of you that stare at the weatherperson and wonder what the funny lines are for: The column of air just above your head and extending to the top of the atmosphere has a mass that depends on a number of details. This fluctuates from minute to minute and, in fact, occurs in waves (those funny lines). Detailed information about the barometric pressure at any given location and time can be sent to a central station where that data is collected and displayed. The more (accurate) sensors that you have, the better detail and, presumably, the better quality of weather (not climate) forecasting.
Having lots of barometric pressure measurements attached to a device that can accurately determine location and time can be a useful source of data. For the National Weather Service, the National Security Agency and other fun TLAs. The utility for the weather service is obvious, for the NSA not so much but I believe it has to do with overall conductivity of aluminum foil, or something along those lines.
Quick, everybody leave your phone in the car for an hour. For science.
And then what? Drive up and down a mountain? Drive into a mine shaft?
You do understand the term 'barometer', do you not?
Battery life of a Casio calculator watch, screen size of a tablet, iOS on on side of the screen, android on the other, SD card, usb3, RJ-45, and hdmi ports.
In short, they listened to this crowd.
Bigger than a Nomad, wireless.
What's not to like?
You just described a cheaper version of the Pebble.
Can they be a little more specific as to what it is that's in the soda that is causing this?
Nope, it's only an observation. No causation at all. And, of course, without any useful info from TFA, one can't tell if this is just another crap study done by some medical student or something with a degree of actual thought behind it. Off to see if the 'American Journal of Public Health' is accessible.
Dust. Dirt. Mud. Polar Bears. Soul freezing temperatures. Polar Bears. Mud. Dust. Dirt. Rocks.
Polar Bears.
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
