I've been using arch for about 4-6 years now and I've never had to sit and watch compiler output. It takes about 20mins to actually install and set-up (a bit longer if you count downloading the packages and updating them). I've never been asked about the format of /opt/srv/lib (I don't even have one). Other than the occasional update requiring a bit more intervention than pacman -Syu, the up keep on Arch is as simple as pacman -Syu and the install wasn't much more difficult.

Actually, you can easily add additional repos by editing /etc/pacman.conf

In your case (and for the most part, everyone else), you host advertisements to support the service offered by you. From reading the comments, you only receive payment from the advertising companies *if* I click on an advertisement? Additionally, you say that as part of the unwritten contract of me using your service, I accept to be exposed to advertisements?

The problem with that is - I don't click on adverts. The only times I have were either by accident (which really, really annoyed me); or when I was asked to by the admin of a forum because they needed some revenue (I was

I block adverts because I find them intrusive, distracting, evil (due to tracking) and the fact that I just don't click on them. I don't own a TV; I rarely read magazines; I don't willingly listen to commercial radio; I Lovefilm DVDs; and I ad-block. I'm just not interested in being advertised to; and if you don't want me using your site (like places which have pay-walls), I'll happily go elsewhere, or just not view the content in the first place.

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This is where the US is somewhat 'backwards' compared to other countries in regards to ionising radiation (IR) legislation. In the UK the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 and its amendments legally requires (when at all possible) that non-ionising imaging modalities be used. There may also be (not entirely certain) a legal requirement to monitor dose given to patients during an examination (however, this is complicated in CT examinations due to how the machine operates and the numerous ways in which dose can be operated) which is performed normally by imputing the dose on the same computer system as the other patient's information. Additionally, there is legal obligation for those who carry out the examination (the operator) to have sufficient knowledge of what they are doing to deem the exam justifiable or not; the operator may include Radiographers (in the case of Radiographers, most of whom are going to be performing the CT, X-ray, MR or US exam they may refer to a Radiologist if they are uncertain to whether it should be performed or not). Another part of justification is viewing the patient's exam history; now because hospitals are linked electronically, it's relatively trivial to transmit images via a PACS system to another hospital, so if the patient had a CT head three weeks ago, the exam need not be repeated and really ought not to be unless the patient's condition has dramatically changed or if it is an acute case. Once again, the information can be stored on a computer and retrieved easily time and time again preventing the patient from being over-exposed. Then there are the ALARA and ALARP principles regarding dose and exams - "as low as reasonably achievable" and "as low as reasonably practicable" which basically are self-explanatory. It's not as simple as saying that there should be a dose limit for patients and that should not be exceeded. What if there is an obese patient, who will not fit in an MR machine, thus a CT machine must be used has cancer? From the staging and monitoring of the cancer his dose is likely to exceed the limit very rapidly. Patients in theatre or a Cath lab having an operation or pace-maker inserted can have doses in excess of 1000cGy due to complications of the exam or difficulty due to patient. So having a limit for people who may need repeated exposure to monitor and track pathological changes isn't entirely sensible (nor is it not without merit either). Again considering patients: with an MR scan the child has to be as still as possible - if it's a small child or an uncooperative one (let's face it a child being caged in the MR coil, fed through the bore and lying around in an environment which has incredibly loud knocking noises ongoing for 20+ mins isn't great if you're a child) moves even slightly it can corrupt the entire scan sequence being undertaken due to how the images are obtained (k-space filling); whereas a CT can reasonably scan the entire body in a few seconds. Additionally, MR, nor US can be used to image the lungs so if the child (or patient) has lung pathologies it can't be demonstrated, therefore an ionising modality has to be used. Once again, the referring clinician should be considering these things when requesting the exam and other doctors (Radiologists) or Radiographers should be vetting these to ensure that they are deemed suitable Quite frankly, the machines for the most part shouldn't be protecting the child in question - the operator of the machine should have sufficient knowledge to know how to use the machine (especially in the plain-film role) that they shouldn't be exposing if they do not; this again is in addition to other healthcare professionals doing what they ought to be doing. It's not as easy as saying ionising radiation = evil. Any doctor requesting the exam should be aware of the dangers of what they are wanting to put the patient through and the risk-benefit should be determined. Other measures such as operators having to justify the exam; exams being vetted and protocoled by a Radiologist prior to the exam commencing; and application of rather basic radiation protection measures can protect a lot of people without having to instigate hard-limits into the machines; hell most of the manufactures are constantly working to curb exposure (especially in the case of CT machines or technological developments - shift from conventional radiography to computed to digital allows for lower exposures as the detecting medium is far more sensitive) without legal imperatives.

A lot of the time the question or information I was looking for is included in the preview text beneath the link, so I don't bother visiting the page.

"reviewing alternative theories" So teaching Pastafarianism creation, or Satanist, Wiccan, Buddhist, Norse (the list goes on) should also be taught as alternate theories? There's already a class for that, it's called Religious Education, it's usually quite distinct from science. It's a science class, where science is taught, a religious class is where religion is taught, if science was taught in RE, then there would be a mob of imbeciles clamouring to get it kicked out; yet again it signifies religious group's hypocritical nature.

Yaourt... *shudder*

The University of Leeds provides guidance/support for Linux users for connecting to their network and several other things, I don't know the extent of their support if I had a problem though.

There could be a degree of overlap between the people they follow on twitter and their real-life friends.

The Sky+ box offered by Sky can let you pause/rewind/FF live TV for an hour and even over that (I think it's dependent on how much you have stored on the hard-drive however), but the principal is there.

See, the older generations grew up with computers as these big, fragile things; you couldn't fuck around too much, otherwise something might break and it would be all your fault

My grandmother is at times quite frightened when she uses her laptop in case she 'breaks it', there have been quite a few times where she's minimised something or Windows has displayed a pop-up of some type and she's concerned to do anything in cases things go wrong.

My Acer Aspire One only has 512mb.

Scatter radiation is produced when the x-rays interact with mass (the patient) in addition to the x-ray beam being divergent; people wear lead aprons to protect against the effects of scatter radiation. I think the OP was more referring to how ultrasound is reflected from surfaces to gain an image and how x-rays have to pass through and attenuated by the patient then an image receptor is used to gain a useful image.

At ASDA they have company vans which are fuelled/maintained by the company with refrigeration units in the back; it's the same for all of the major supermarkets which do home delivery here, in the UK.