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For example, the same political system, we here in Canada have Harper there is no way he is popular but he keeps winning elections.

From what I have read I'm sure MRI machines use liquid helium because the superconducting magnet needs to be very cold and liquid nitrogen isn't cold enough. LN2 was used as a sort of buffer/insulator but has been replaced by cryocooler cooled dewar.

Not that I know much more I just skimmed The Basics of MRI: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/chap-9/chap-9.htm

I'd say if you're an Irish person Thatcher could be seen as a terrorist.

It would be nice if there was a torque reduction feature.

A trick for manual transmission vehicles in winter when on ice is to shift into third gear to reduce the torque so the wheel don't spin, the Tesla is the insane opposite of that.

[ Come on Elon summon your inner Canadian instincts! ]

What about janitors? I'm sure I could clean up the poop!

I think I'm the reverse of (Gattaca) Ethan Hawke in this situation.

Maritimes.

It snowed today and there was about six inches of slush on the roads, no plows out. Sure they salted the snot out of the roads but the slush was crazy.

Interesting, he had good points about such a heavy vehicle in snow and the large amount of torque that can make for dangerous winter driving especially in a rear-wheel drive vehicle.

I had to look up what the 'cold weather spec' package is and seems to be just creature comforts not different engineering/design to increase efficiency in cold weather.

My concern is at -20C in January with a metre of snow, heater on full blast, spinning the wheels as I plow through snow and slush with aggressive studded winter tires how much will that 400km range drop? Even just warming up the interior (a common thing) in the morning and scraping off the ice off the windows before going to work in the morning. My current vehicle's mileage drops in half in the winter due to all those conditions.

It's nice to see such long term data put to use and to be shown in graphical form what everyone has been screaming vaccines save lives!

Yes I get vaccinated yearly for the flu, I also got one for H1N1 (?) a few years ago.

So many people across all age ranges it's sad, the comments in the NYT article are sad to see. A 20 something guy at work was telling me excitedly how "some guy" on YouTube "proved" writing the word hate and love on water bottles then freezing them makes the ice different. This same person is against vehemently against all GM foods and Big Pharma, the "some guy on YouTube" is the all-knowing answer.

Why even drink soy "milk" why not water or some other liquid, or other animal milk you may not be allergic to?

It seems to me people are compelled to have a milk substitute whether due to allergy or ethical reasons as if we need to have something called milk in our fridges.

It reminds me of the tofurky a soy shaped turkey supposedly tastes like turkey, it would be like a person who eats a lot of meat making a carrot out of meat colouring it orange and making it taste like a carrot, why even bother.

One reason: stigma.

All I recall from childhood/teen years is "IBM compatible PC" a mantra on every TV commercial IBM or others produced.

A PC was for business and you were rich or a fool to spend thousands on something so useless to a regular Joe.

Apple was even more expensive and even less common than a PC and even so Apple was quirky and drew pictures, ATARI and Commodore were for games.

They were in totally different worlds. Back then I wouldn't have even thought to have one computer that did everything.

A PBS show on a few nights ago had a history of aluminum and its uses. In the show it mentioned aluminum is too soft when pure so copper was added but the discoverer found even after copper was added it was still too soft, he got fed up went away for a few days and when he came back the alloy was harder; age hardening.

My phone was damaged and I wondered if my keys scratched my SG3 smartphone, Gorilla Glass has a hardness from what I have read anywhere from a 3 to a 6 but corundum (oxidized aluminum) has a Mohs hardness of 9. Then I found out scratch resistance is not hardness. I think the SG3 screen's scratch resistance is significantly inferior to the SG2 screen.

Teflon or PFOA is supposedly in everyone's blood already at least in the US and probably most western nations it's so pervasive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid

Although manor is oddly apt, don't dare act up in my manor!

Weird. I think it was on the Discovery Channel recently ( Past month? So also "recent research") where a study on open-plan offices was mentioned and how workers felt they had no privacy saying cubicles were better.

I think it comes down to the person, why not offer both choices?

By the way that graph near the end woke my inner 80s teenager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sLICo-Cxo

> from not having enough discourse.

Actually that is my point, I was being facetious.

Do the reverse, switch HN to invite only.

That thing is a death-trap, no crash protection.

I wouldn't call it a car it's more of a toy.

Only one way and that's comically:

http://mashable.com/2013/10/07/fox-news-deck/

It's almost as fun when you ask a question on a forum and maybe figure it out or not but months or years later run into the same problem Google it and find your own question and answer as a top search result.

I had one when it was $10 but spent it, now at zero.

I'm in the Maritimes and things are so well at my job so no go for travel, but maybe I'll mention it to my doctor.

Thanks.

> normal or even fantastic lipid levels

At work a nurse comes in and we can get tested for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes. I go and each time even up until my NAFLD my numbers practically perfect.

Maybe I do have some ApoB protein trouble. Although I doubt there is a lipid clinic anywhere in Canada for me to go to.

Thanks anyway.

I have a dull ache in my right side, back under shoulder blade and lower right abdomen. It's not painful just an annoying constant ache. Sometimes pins and needles on my back over my shoulder blade.

From what I understand most people with NAFLD feel nothing, some people who develop scarring (cirrhosis) and even cancer don't feel anything. The liver is weird, at least it can regenerate from a lot of abuse.

And then there is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

I am not fat, I've always been thin and my cholesterol is bang on perfect, my blood pressure 120/80 or better. Although I've slacked off the gym for about four years I'm pretty active at work.

Anyway out of the blue I am diagnosed with fatty liver: it hurts, I can feel it. Know how people with fatty liver die? Heart attack or stroke, fatty liver significantly increases the chances of either or both.

My grandfather died at age 52 of a heart attack, his daughter my aunt died of a stroke after multiple heart attacks age 70-ish and her brother my uncle also died of a heart attack at age 52 same as his father. Their brother my uncle had a quadruple bypass in his late 50s.

I'm beginning to wonder if people with a family history of heart disease really have NAFLD.

Ah Pelco where 3.5" floppy is still required for updates, still, in 2013.

To me "gray" just seems wrong, grey feels right.

>I won't even bother to get into the other countries.

I live in eastern Canada and even some of my own fellow Canadians don't realize we are an hour ahead of them here in this region.

And east of my region is Newfoundland and Labrador who are 30 minutes ahead of my region.

I was also expecting it to be about the Stanford cooling glove.

Aren't there certain conditions for the camera to operate lights are siren both or perhaps? It's not on constantly from what I understand and it would make sense for a technical and privacy reasons.

So are you.