jlc

Would you elaborate a bit? I thought that antibiotic treatment was pretty successful, if it was started promptly.

Jan

Sigh. This is always the case. Perhaps the root of the problem is that people who are rational are not as excitable as liberals. So the first people who rush to the polls are the liberals, then the conservatives mosey along, then...maybe...some objectivists decide to be counted.

So, new idea: We need to figure out what will cause a flash panic in the Libertarian and Objectivist crowd.

Jan

I have occasionally checked up on Fox (and sometimes Drudge) so see if there is a report on some matter that is of stunning importance and which I heard of in the Gulch. Often, there is no mention of it at all otherwise (and one of my best sources for new scientific breakthroughs is...io9...go figure.)

Jan

One of my friends commented on people who get pissy about not getting a nearby parking space...at the gym. (He makes a point of parking far away when he goes to the gym.)

Jan, amused

This is a good thing. It will not always work because a typical chain of events goes like this: you go on a trip, you go hiking, you come home after the trip is over. You are tired and grouchy and you think you caught the flu on the airplane or at the airport. You have been bitten by mosquitoes whilst on your trip, so there are lots of red dots on your arms and ankles. You do not notice the red dot on the back of your leg that looks a bit different...

Now you have to decide whether or not you have Lyme disease or just the usual post-trip malaise.

If in doubt (and you hiked in an endemic area), go for the antibiotics. If they are given right away (<72hrs) a single dose of doxycycline can reduce incidence of the development of Lyme disease by ~87%.

Jan

So...why don't all those people go to the polls and vote the gun registration to the legislative hell to which it belongs?

Jan

Yay! More freedom.

Good for them. Let's get government out of personal lives, healthcare, space, energy,...[continue list].

Jan

(Besides which, isn't that, "Your state already?" since I life in CA?)

One of the Big Advantages in starting over in a hypothetical Gulch is the ability to shed the detritus of laws and regulations that have accumulated over the years. I think that cloning and chromosomal selection and male pregnancy and...who knows what else...would be available if there were not barriers to their happening.

(We could even get those Thorium reactors, Thoritsu!)

Jan

The only culture I am familiar with that has polyandry is Tibet - and that is because it is so difficult to survive there that it takes more than one man to support a family. A pair of brothers generally marry a woman and together they can support a family.

However, if the family does well and becomes well off, then your theory is substantiated by the fact that then the younger brother generally splits off to get his very own wife. So this is a purely economic decision that allows a family to survive even under the most difficult conditions.

However, many cultures exhibited wife-sharing with high status visitors. These were probably not sissy-man cultures...

Jan

Thank you for the corrections.

I would suspect that we are looking at a multiple chain of events: better childhood nutrition leading to larger body size overall; a shift away from farm jobs to white collar jobs leading to physically weak office workers; the low-fat program resulting in obesity and diabetes; the athletic fad amongst affluent people somewhat reversing the effect of the initial shift away from manual labor and farm jobs.

It would be an interesting study...or probably, book.

Jan

Having minds and bodies in the 21st century is a good thing. Not understanding consequences is a bad thing.

Jan

Thank you for the article. I am going to look into it further as this has some outstanding implications.

Jan

I think that you have to consider how the 'in charge' part happened. If Objectivists were legitimate inheritors of the gov, having been properly voted into office, then part of the assumption of that set of responsibilities would be to fix the debt. (Which I think could be done - we have discussed the steps on prior threads.)

If Objectivists came to power as the result of social upheaval and collapse, then we might not be responsible for the debts incurred by the 'nobility' when they ran the country.

Jan

This statement is based on an incident that occurred around 2000: A woman discovered that she was pregnant AFTER she had had a complete hysterectomy. The ectopic pregnancy implanted on the reverse side of her gut, developed a placenta, gestated, and the baby was delivered by c-section. Comments at the time were made to the effect that there was nothing to prevent this from happening to a man (hormones would have to be carefully controlled - but that is trivial for an INF doctor).

I had frankly thought that we would see this happening in reality by 2015...perhaps it was more of an anomaly than I realized.

Jan

This is the sort of discussion that is ignored by the news media. Greece playing Mom/Dad with EU and Rus.

Jan

Science Fiction. SciFi. ...not sure what you are asking...

If there is something particular, please PM me: I will be glad to help.

Jan

I find more important news in the Gulch than I do on Fox.

Jan

Red wine on the table. White wine and cider in the cold stream.

(The basis for a good campsite.)

Jan

The US is also susceptible to internal collapse, but that may be what needs to happen in order to rebuild a financial structure that is more sensible. (I say this knowing that the reverse happened during the Great Depression.)

Jan

Having just gotten back from a week of primitive camping in a tent, I ask, "Hmmm. Winnebago. What is wrong with a Winnebago?" (It is not so much the 'camping' part that makes a difference, it is the 'schlepping' part that one can eliminate. Ow! My back!)

Jan, loves camping

Yes, blackswan. A martial-artsy woman, but definitely a woman.

Did you ask that because of my enthusiasm for the development of External Gestational Devices or because I included the possibility of a man becoming pregnant?

Jan

Mom is dead, no brothers, uncles can have little red dots on their chest. Problem?

Kidding aside, it is quite different with Greece, since they could be taken over militarily from outside. The US, not so much.

Jan

Well stated!

Jan

I would think that the CEO of REI would know tons about the outdoors...?

Jan

Nice site, thank you for the link.

Jan