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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:45:20 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Insurance premiums are skyrocketing for sperm banks but it is still cheaper to hire untrained personnel and work them to death where everything has tiny little labels and all containers look alike. Technicians are poorly paid, poorly trained and usually so frazzled by the end of the day that mistakes are inevitable. In a kitchen an unlabeled saucer of sugar and an unlabeled saucer of salt are poor choices to make but a cake can be thrown into the garbage and everyone can go out and get drunk. Hospitals that use "room 9" and "Waiting Area 9" are obviously going to have medications administered to the wrong persons when those terms refer to two separate areas that are close by. Hospitals that require bar code scanning of test tubes will have fewer mistakes than those that rely on small printed labels. Larger social issues? Of course. How would Archie Bunker react to this? One Dutch woman explained to her black son that he was supposed to go to a black mother but that he just wanted to be born so much that God gave him to her so he would not have to wait. A very nice explanation for the little kid, but it just didn't go over so well with her husband. |
October 3rd, 2014 at 4:28:04 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Exceptionally well put. By simply using numbers and written letters together (e.g. 380 (three eight zero)) such a mistake becomes much harder to make. I may have some bias here as all the time I see shoddy work in relation to numbers and writing which creates issues minor and major over 100 years after it has happened. And in most of those cases it is just not taking care of the little things that would have prevented it.
Again well put. Let be honest, many women consider traits of a man to be passed to the kids when choosing a mate. This is not just the case in humans but in other animals where the female chooses.
Perhaps they are disappointed that you do not appreciate their proud Irish, Italian, or Korean culture that goes back a thousand years? The President is a fink. |
October 3rd, 2014 at 5:35:26 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Into the Wild. Instead of death from seeds and roots containing toxic alkaloids its now seeds containing an amino acid Beta-ODAP. Still questions remain. Foraging on public lands, adequacy of preparations for adverse conditions, ignorant traveling versus prepared for survival challenges, etc. |
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:43:45 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18631 | For the less discriminating:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/10/women-skip-both-banks-for-free-online-sperm/ You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:47:10 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Whatever happened to hooking up, leaving the next morning, and never seeing the guy again? The President is a fink. |
October 8th, 2014 at 6:55:18 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 | And then they wonder why nobody trusts the media? "Why Florida’s record-setting hurricane drought portends danger" So before it was we have to worry about global warming causing severe weather. Now a LACK OF SEVERE WEATHER is somehow a problem? Good Grief! The President is a fink. |
October 8th, 2014 at 7:25:48 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
I can hardly believe that this was actually a serious article. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
October 8th, 2014 at 10:06:03 AM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Japans east coast and therefore Fukushima Diachi is getting pounded. Last week some areas received two feet of rain. Now this; http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/years-strongest-storm-super-typhoon-vongfong-forecast-to-hit-japan-20141008-10rnkm.html The nuclear power plant destroyed in 2011 long since stopped being newsworthy but not for one second has it stopped emanating millions of bq's of radiation. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/03/1334147/-Release-Dispersion-and-Fate-of-Radioactive-Strontium-From-Fukushima-in-the-North-Pacific-Ocean# Arnie Gunderson who I believe worked on the construction of the plant has said this is an ele, extinction level event. It's just not news. What would the Kardashians do?[sarc] The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
October 9th, 2014 at 1:58:06 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | it was eye-opening to me that Japan would have had anything less than the most secure nuclear power anywhere, yet ... In particular above-ground storage of used rods really stands out to me as pure stupidity I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
October 9th, 2014 at 3:24:11 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
I still have to wonder on the rods and other used items why we can't just dig a big shaft and detonate a very small nuke to incinerate them. I am talking 1-2% the size of Little Boy. The President is a fink. |