Reddit, what is the most powerful image you have ever seen?

tokerjoker11 · 2012-05-25T23:20:55.417390+00:00

996hurt · 1 day

He finally became convinced in January 2009, just after he claimed his “hormonal imbalance” could be treated easily. But there was a problem. He was put on the wait list for a liver transplant in California, but it be- came clear he would never get one there in time. The number of available donors with his blood type was small. Also, the metrics used by the United Network for Organ Shar- ing, which establishes policies in the United States, favored those suffering from cirrhosis and hepatitis over cancer patients.

There is no legal way for a patient, even one as wealthy as Jobs, to jump the queue, and he didn’t. Recipients are chosen based on their MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease), which uses lab tests of hor- mone levels to determine how urgently a transplant is needed, and on the length of time they have been waiting. Every donation is closely audited, data are available on public websites (optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/), and you can monitor your status on the wait list at any time.

This fragment from his biography will probably clarify things a bit.

996hurt · 1 day

He was on two transplant lists, one for every of the two states I mentioned, since he had an airplane so he could afford to get to any of that two hospitals in time. The lists were public, AFAIK (I'm not from US, so I have no idea how this stuff works there), but if you can prove that you can reach in time in two states, you can join two lists. You'll need a personal airplane for this, so a lot of money.

996hurt · 1 day

gaming the organ donor system by getting put on a list in every state

gaming the organ donor system by getting put on a list in two states. FTFY.

996hurt · 1 day

Up until his death Jobs was an unrepentant douchebag.

Guess what? Jobs didn't care.

Bovice1 · 1 day

That ship is awful.

Launched in a more optimistic time, a hybrid of different technologies, and sporting an experimental engine that was as spectacular as it was dangerous, the ship was heralded as the dawning of a new age, and its launching was considered a chance to rescue its program from the public relations nightmare that had plagued it after cost-overruns, work stoppages and failures integrating components had turned the public against its grand new program.

This sounds good, but I was thinking more at USS Excelsior, not at a flying medusa contraption.

rawbeef64 · 3 days

It looks really good on KDE, but Qt applications on OSX... meh...

HollywoodMetal · 3 days

Even if SpaceX is only a space trucking company that only follows profit, I'm still happy for that. It will reduce the cost of rocket launches, it will crate jobs in this field, people will once again want to be rocket scientists. On the long run, I'm happy with that. More companies will figure: "hey, space could really be a profitable sector" and more money will flow towards space. The process already started with Planetary Resources and with billionaires pouring money into that venture. Trucking at first, NASA contracts, but it will get the ball rolling. Companies will begin to innovate and they will reach higher and higher grounds, with more ambitious mission. Today: a capsule like the ones form the 60s orbiting the Earth, tomorrow mining platinum from 241 Germania. Even Elon Musk said a few times about Mars and his plans towards it, since Dragon capsule has an ablative shield that could withstand re-enty from above LEO.

Our history doesn't have to be exactly like Star Trek. Space commercialization could be the kick we, as a whole, need to start once again be enthusiastic about space. Rockets are launched, we dream at various vehicles with astronauts in them. Even my wife, who is not really into space that much, watched the replays of today's launch with me and she like it. She liked the young team of SpaceX engineers cheering for excitement of having a toy up there, orbiting the Earth, after years of work.

I love space exploration and if someone is putting their millions for buildings rockets, I'm excited. That's why I think Elon Musk and the whole SpaceX ideea is awesome. Because they launch rockets and because they create around them excitement about space. And that's inspiring and awesome.

rawbeef64 · 3 days

No they don't, unfortunatelly. There is no strict template you should follow while writting your thesis, just some general guidelines.

rawbeef64 · 3 days

Uhm, I'd rather not :) While vim is an excellent tool for managing my servers' configuration files and such, I can't see myself using vim (or, God forbidds, Emacs!) to write LaTeX documents, at least not now in 2012.

krattr · 5 days

Jan Weiss (Czech writer), wrote, in 1929, an excellent novel, called Dům o Tisíci Patrech (House of Thousand Floors). It's surprisingly actual, I had no idea it was written so long ago when I first get my hands on it, it's really one of those eastern european gem worth reading.

KonaCoiler · 5 days

I've met Rust Schweickart last year, I even have the meeting filmed on camera, he is such a great person.

vajav · 7 days

Ms. Shotwell said in the pre-launch press conference that they have a tight window and only 50% of SpaceX rockets launched on time, on first attempt. Considering the complexity of this mission, I'd say that the launch will be scrubbed and my money is on one of the next occasion, the closest being on 22 of May, if I recall correctly. However, I hope I'm wrong and I hope we'll have a flawless launch in just a couple of hours.

andreiknox · 8 days

Okay.

andreiknox · 8 days

Da, e Gallium, dacă ai sistem periodic în engleză, d'oh! Ia vezi în tabelul tău, sub Au ce scrie? Aurum? Gold? Aur?

N-am înțeles analogia cu prăjinile, poți detalia?

Zeulodin · 8 days

iPhone au doar sărăntocii care nu-și permit un iPad...

brutalistu · 8 days

Cine vrea să vadă meteoriți, este așteptat la Cluj, nu doar în Noaptea Muzeelor, ci oricând dorește. Just sayin'.

chiri988 · 8 days

Deci polițaiul care mergea cu 180 km/h într-un Porsche, filmat de televiziuni, a scăpat de amendă pentru că nu a fost filmat cu un dispozitiv omologat, deși este evident că evenimentul a avut loc?

azdoid · 8 days

Și ce te oprește? Sunt închise granițele? Nu ai bani de pașaport?

andreiknox · 8 days

Galiu. Cu g mic, adică galiu, pentru că nu e nume propriu. Era greu în românește?

Sau tu folosești "bare de Iron" și "lanț de Gold"?

dispozableusername · 8 days

Zeulodin · 8 days

Ideea picturii (renascentiste) nu era să redea peisaje cu valoare geografică și istorică. Erau o grămadă de simboluri ascunse în majoritatea operelor și povestea lor face deliciul unui astfel de tablou. Am aflat și eu asta relativ recent, de pe iTunesU și din ce îmi mai spunea un amic specialist în istoria artei. În fotografie nu poți altera peisajul ca să transmiți un mesaj, dar asta nu înseamnă că fotografia e aiurea, doar că e o altă formă de artă și nu o văd o fotografie ca o formă de pictură evoluată, ci doar ca ceva separat.

Teatrul nu este un strămoș al filmului. Nu merg des la teatru, ba chiar foarte rar, dar când mă duc nu fac comparații cu cinemaul, pentru că este complet altceva. Sunt niște oameni în fața mea care încearcă să transmită mesajul regizorului sau al dramaturgului, spontan, după sute de ore de repetiții și apreciez asta. Percepția este cu totul alta față de cinema. Plus că de obicei nu sunt oameni cu popcorn sau telefoane cu ecrane luminoase și nici nu se comentează în sală.

Cinemaul e net superior filmului văzut acasă. Pentru că, dacă ești cât de cât educat, te forțează să îți închizi telefonul și te decuplează complet de lumea reală. Nu contează că afară e vijelie, nu te distrage ploaia care bate în geam, nu contează că te caută mătușa Florica sau colega de la servici, ești complet rupt de realitate și savurezi filmul. Pe un ecran gigant cu sunet de calitate. Faci pipi înainte să intri în sală și orice om sănătos se poate abține 2-3 ore. Îmi plac și trailerele de la început, nici chiar reclamele de la Pepsi nu mă deranjează. Și nu mai zic nimic de bucureșteni, care au la dispoziție ditamai IMAX-ul 3D, unde am fost de două ori să văd Space Station 3D (venit din Cluj, e drept că nu special pentru asta, dar a fost o coincidență fericită, venisem de fapt să văd un astronaut în carne și oase), pentru că mă simțeam ca într-un parc de distracții, atât era de intens sentimentul. Acasă merge un serial, un sitcom, în timpul unei mese, un episod din South Park, dar pentru Prometheus sau Dark Knight Rises, aș plăti 15 lei pentru o experiență de cinema.

GeoAtreides · 8 days

Să reducă temporar capacitatea e una, dezastru e cu totul altceva.

GeoAtreides · 9 days

Spell disaster pă dracu, că nu scade Dunărea brusc, în 20 de secunde, să nu poate cineva opri centrala, plus că nu-mi amintesc să fi fost oprită din cauza debitului vreodată.

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