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Where did you read this last week? Just curious cause I'm always looking for other news sources.

Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=virus+par... Second hit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

I'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank to cash their Electronics for Imaging paychecks @ $1.21/hour for a 120 hour work week.

... a subsidy for No-cost/low cost broadband for low income families. The tax will be a lovely penalty for those who can provide for themselves.

There is no indication whatever of that in TFA, but suppose it is put in place. What a tragedy! Like those nasty soup kitchens and putting up the homeless where they won't freeze to death. Let them die, and while we're at it let's make sure they are without internet as they are dying.

Why do anything at all to mitigate rich pricks accumulating all the resources? What could be wrong with the fact that the world's 85 richest individuals now have as much money as the 3.5 billion poorest people put together?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Reagan's response to KAL 007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VA4W1wDMAk

Obama's response to MH 17:

Obama goes AWOL again with just 40-second mention of Malaysian plane crash

Hell, even Chris Matthews ripped Obama a new one by comparing Obama's pathetic response to Reagan's

Any wonder why Dems are getting their asses kicked today in mid-term elections?

Obama's fumbled every damn thing he's touched - relations with Russia ("Fuck the EU...), Obamacare, ISIS, Ebola (just watch the CDC go back and forth about how Ebola can/can't be spread by sneeze droplets...), the whole damn Middle East, European relations (think the Poles are happy about Obama pulling missile defense from them? Guess who called Obama "the real chickenshit" just a few days ago...)

3. is clearly supposed to be evidence for the claim in 1. - you don't have to think it's good evidence, but it is at least clearly about the claim in 1.

We need to correct our generalizations elsewise
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/...
Men are rapists.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Women are husband murders

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Women will cheat on you if you have a big penis.

https://www.ministrymagazine.o...
Men are christian and battle with their sexuality.

See the problem with taking one thing and applying to everyone? You're going to piss off a lot of people who had nothing to do with what happened, even if they have something in common like religion, or gender. You need the support of these people to stop these things.

3. is clearly supposed to be evidence for the claim in 1. - you don't have to think it's good evidence, but it is at least clearly about the claim in 1.

We need to correct our generalizations elsewise
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/...
Men are rapists.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Women are husband murders

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Women will cheat on you if you have a big penis.

https://www.ministrymagazine.o...
Men are christian and battle with their sexuality.

See the problem with taking one thing and applying to everyone? You're going to piss off a lot of people who had nothing to do with what happened, even if they have something in common like religion, or gender. You need the support of these people to stop these things.

Bill Gates has already given away billions of his wealth. He is one of the most charitable individuals in history. Say what you will about how he earned his money - it's at least going to good use now.

If you read the wiki or watch the defcon video it did get hot

His property was designated superfund cleanup site, all taken to Utah nuclear waste disposal. 5 block radius was evacuated.

He had over safe limits of radioactivity readings 5 blocks away. Geiger counters were saturated off charts on the property.

The breeder was left running for days and the levels were insane

Updated story from UK

On June 26 1996 Davidâ(TM)s boyish experiment shut down a neighborhood of 40,000 residents.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Photos of the hazmat suits and barrels of radioactive material

How he got thorium

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He bought $1,000 worth of lithium batteries, sawed them down, extracted the element, put it with thorium dioxide in a tin foil ball, cooked it over his Bunsen burner and the result was purified thorium, to 170 times the amount that needs NCR licensing.

He made a list of sources of such materials: Americium-241 could be found in smoke detectors, radium 226 could be found in antique luminous clocks, uranium 238 and quantities of uranium 235 existed in black ore called pitchblende (he has a polaroid picture of glowing pitchblende stuck to his refrigerator today) and thorium 232 is in Coleman style gas lanterns.

How many Apple fans will make fun of him, in spite of the fact that Steve Jobs never gave a dime to charity?

Did he? Even if he wasn't as generous as Bill, it seems you are wrong:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Now... how many Apple haters will try to use this to take cheap shots at Apple and to crap on the memory of Steve Jobs?

Just to be suere, here are 2 more links. One and Two

He radiated 5 blocks the breeder got out of control.
He fucked himself up go see photo of his face now

He used radium from antique clocks found a vial of radium in a clock he also had a neutron gun from beryllium and he used to start the reactor, and over days it got hotter and before it got critical he dismantled and panicked.

The government labeled his house a Superfund cleanup site.

But it was enough to build dirty bomb. If he would have taken the radiated source and ground it down and sprayed over a salad bar , water supply, etc he could have caused a cancer increase as alpha and beta are only harmful if ingested or breathed in, the gammas can go right through.

See video link, Hahn could have killed a lot if he went the one evil step further.

But this was in mid 90s pre 9/11

He was arrested for attempting to recreate the reactor couple years ago

David's face: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...

From his jail photo from 2nd attempt

He had nearly thousand fire alarms he got from landfills, calling stores tossing out trash or broken ones.

He had thorium from lanterns
Radium
Uranium
Cesium
Americium

She is not "supposed to be quarantined" according to anyone except some idiot politicians trying to score political points and capitalize on fear. She has tested negative multiple times, has no symptoms, and the CDC has cleared her to go home. New Jersey governor said Monday that the CDC cleared nurse Kaci Hickox to go home during 21-day quarantine after she tested negative for Ebola

It's just idiot politicians who have to be seen to be "doing something", regardless of whether that thing makes any sense.

Also CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined.

Yet in some countries they'd have been beheaded.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Yes AC its NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) but
"U.S. soldiers are being flown to Liberia with just FOUR HOURS of hazmat training as Ebola death toll hits 4,546" (18 October 2014)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

But after 20 years of GMO products, and absolutely no significantly measurable negative ecological/human impacts...

Oh really???

Is that unreasonable? If there were evolutionary pressure (ie, short people kept being killed before reproducing), and tall people got multiple mates, I could see this change happening within twenty generations.

Interestingly, we have had a MUCH faster increase in height in the past couple centuries, probably mostly due to improvements in living conditions, food supply and nutrition, and medical advances.

According to this recent study, for example, European men have gained approximately 4 inches in height in 100 years, i.e., about 4 or 5 generations.

So, it probably doesn't even require significant genetic changes to produce such a shift. I once read somewhere that n the early 1800s, the average height differential between upper-class and lower-class Englishmen was something like 7 or 8 inches (i.e., rich men were something like 8 inches taller than poor men).

With various approaches but its not clear that they are so successful. Your particular conversation sounds like it may have been an outlier.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blo...
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-new...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

A woman has developed a nose-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis failed. At the Hospital de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, the unnamed woman, a U.S. citizen, had tissue from her nose implanted in her spine. Doctors hoped the cells would develop into neural cells and help repair the nerve damage to the woman's spine. But the treatment failed. However, last year, eight years after the stem cell operation, the woman, then 28, complained of increasing pain in the area. Doctors discovered a three-centimetre-long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves.

But then again there are junctions in the UK where you can get trapped into either stopping in a box junction or running a red light - either of which gets you a fine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
In the case of the Chicago cameras though I'm sure they'll publicly spin it up as a success in that clearly the cameras have had their deterrent effect while privately cursing the fact that their money tree isn't patching the budget holes like they wanted.

No really. Before you mod this flamebait, check the studies. It's 100% true. Statistically speaking (well, at least according to several large surveys), most women actually do prefer male authority in the work-place.

http://www.businessweek.com/ar...

And there are thousands of nightmare tales about all female workplaces...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

Of course such statistics and stories will forever be dismissed by social justice warriors... And there are many here on Slashdot.

Samantha Brick (an executive producer for television shows) started "the first all-female production company" so that "smart, intelligent, career-orientated women could work harmoniously, free from the bravado of the opposite sex". Unfortuntately, it disintigrated within 2 years because of "catfights over handbags and tears in the toilets". In fact, Brick says that "if I were to do it again, I'd definitely employ men. In fact, I'd probably employ only men." See

http://dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1168182

We're not playing the same game?
Just how deep in the sand do you have your head buried?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

What China is doing is a drop in the bucket compared to what the USA is doing.

"...that person will be immediately isolated..."

Unless of course, they need some soup.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.georgianewsday.com/...

re "Well, speaker recognition dates as far back as facial recognition does."
It was big in the 1980's to find interesting people using different phones and very early cell phones in South America by the US mil/gov.
The UK enjoyed using it "Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters" (3 August 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"They are attempting to identify suspects using ‘voice prints’" ... "Traffic’ intercepted by the equipment on board is analysed and processed, probably at the GCHQ spy centre in Cheltenham, searching for voice matches"
The only real change is the cost of collection, cost of sorting and ability to build on public, telco, private and mil databases been shared with the Five Eye nations and friends.
Expect every arrival chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Expect every car rental, duty free, cafe airport chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Get you talking, keep you talking, its not just about the car rental use or been friendly to the wider travelling public ;)
Domestically the telco and trusted brands Interactive voice response (IVR) will record the rest of the wider populations over years.
That 1 or 5 min chat with Bob or Sally in telco support is not just kept for training purposes or quality control :)
Your billing details have been matched with something globally unique.

Though it would be interesting to see how long a Bear would take to open a CCCP'd space capsule.

I bet these bears would be quite adept and preconditioned to try it.

Thats great advice. The problem is statistically men aren't working more, they are just getting paid more, and thats unfair.

I'll ignore everything else[1], but that statement has long been acknowledged as wrong . To be honest, if women were more valuable than men in the workplace (produced the same for less pay) the first all-female company to arise would sooner or later tower over the industry due to the lower employment costs. This does not happen - see here

[1] Discussing feelings is useless; there are no objective measures hence we come down to the argument of whose feelings matter more.

Both do, but it *is* sexist. It is far more widespread and vicious towards women. Ignoring that is not helping.

Ignoring it is being gender neutral in approach to an issue that can affect anybody.

The war on drugs is "far more widespread and vicious towards [men]". So what? Am I right? Or with every problem must we not ignore which gender is disproportionately affected?

Murder is "far more widespread and vicious towards [men]".

Rape is "far more widespread and vicious towards [men]" (prison rape in particular which skews the stats but FBI ignores it).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

When is ignoring gender helping or not helping? You implicit seem to encourage it while trying to fight sexism. Why?

Less of some types of carbs, yes, but more other stuff too: https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...
"Excess weight interferes with insulin's functions, and is the primary risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. Therefore the most effective treatment for type 2 diabetes is significant weight loss. However, the primary mode of treatment by physicians today is glucose-lowering medication. These medications give a false sense of security, providing implicit permission to continue the same disease-causing diet and lifestyle that allowed diabetes to develop in the first place. Many of these medications promote weight gain -- making the patient more diabetic; most importantly, these medications do not prevent diabetes from progressing and causing complications. ...
The key to diabetes reversal is superior nutrition and exercise. It may take a little extra effort, but avoiding the tragic complications of diabetes and a premature death is well worth it. My diabetes-reversal diet is vegetable-based with a high nutrient to calorie ratio, containing lots of greens and beans, other non-starchy vegetables, (such as mushrooms, eggplant, tomatoes and onions), raw nuts and seeds, and limited fresh fruit with no sweeteners or white flour products. When diabetics eat in this style, they lose their excess weight -- the cause of their diabetes -- quickly and easily, reducing or eliminating their need for medications and they also flood the body with disease-protective and healing micronutrients and phytochemicals that aid the body's recovery and self-repair mechanism."

For Type II diabetics, such a diet with weight loss brings the body's ability to respond to glucose in line with the remaining capacity to make it as needed. Exercise that builds more muscles and that is done when sugar is spiking can also help in managing glucose levels.

For Type I diabetics however, where the body can't produce much glucose at all if any, this improved diet/exercise is not enough, even if it can improve the situation some what as far as reducing complications. For Type I diabetics, this sort of breakthrough with stem cells, if it works, would be truly amazing.

Sometimes type I diabetics are really misdiagnosed type II, and vice versa, so there is a small level of confusion here where sometimes diet works when you would not expect etc..

BTW, vitamin D deficiency (from lack of natural sunlight) may be involved with the autoimmune response that could cause type I diabetes or perhaps make type II worse.

More from Furhman:
https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-...

More from others:
http://www.rawfor30days.com/
http://www.fatsickandnearlydea...
https://www.drmcdougall.com/he...
http://articles.mercola.com/si...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/0...

The deeper issue is that our brains and microbiomes are adapted for a scarcity of refined carbs, and we struggle with the abundance of cheap ones:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/libra...
"Scientific evidence suggests that the re-sensitization of taste nerves takes between 30 and 90 days of consistent exposure to less stimulating foods. This means

And that's why more and more US citizen abroad are renouncing to their US citizenship. In Switzerland the number are growing every year, as thanks to FACTA even getting a simple bank account is almost impossible. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

In other news, parrots who live with humans learn to speak human languages and some chimpanzees living with smokers have even learned to smoke cigarettes.

I guess those things are bound to happen when two species hang together when their anatomies allow to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Our press are outraged that the Police were using RIPA powers to track down press sources...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

oRLY?

these have http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Porn shrinks your brain

Lack of sleep shrinks your brain

Multi-tasking shrinks your brain

Religion shrinks your brain

Fat shrinks your brain

Elevated Blood Sugar shrinks your brain

Stress shrinks your brain

Aging shrinks your brain

Alcohol shrinks your brain

Vegetarianism shrinks your brain

Type 2 diabetes shrinks your Brain

Cell phones shrink your brain

I think medical fear mongering is shrinking our brains.

And yes, I did search for "Climate Change is shrinking our brains." No hits. So there you go MSM; a perfectly good theme that no one has used yet.

Porn shrinks your brain

Lack of sleep shrinks your brain

Multi-tasking shrinks your brain

Religion shrinks your brain

Fat shrinks your brain

Elevated Blood Sugar shrinks your brain

Stress shrinks your brain

Aging shrinks your brain

Alcohol shrinks your brain

Vegetarianism shrinks your brain

Type 2 diabetes shrinks your Brain

Cell phones shrink your brain

I think medical fear mongering is shrinking our brains.

And yes, I did search for "Climate Change is shrinking our brains." No hits. So there you go MSM; a perfectly good theme that no one has used yet.

Being? Is. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... And don;t give me that BS about how Hypothesis and theory have been twisted into different words. Hypothesis is a an idea about something and the tests used to test that. It leads to a working Theory. Theories are NOT facts. They might contain them from the tests done. Fact; Obama gave an improper salute because he was unwilling to take the time to hand off his cup of coffee. Climate change is a hoax because there simply isn't enough info to DO the tests required to go beyond the hypothesis stage. You cant do the tests because there is no Unflawed info.

How soon people forget. RIM was very quick to roll over and give access to their servers in 2010, to the Saudis of all people: as reported by Reuters and LOTS of other news sources.

RIM would share with Saudi Arabia the unique pin number and code for each BlackBerry registered there. That will allow authorities to read encrypted text sent via Messenger, an instant messaging service that's distinct from email sent on the BlackBerry.

The arrangement would effectively give Saudi Arabia access to RIM's main server for Messenger, but only for communications to and from Saudi users, the source said..

The Canadian company declined to comment, referring media to its earlier statement in which it said it "cooperates with all governments with a consistent standard."

Just google for "rim gives government access to servers" India quickly got the same. The US and China? Yep!

Significantly, DoT was pulled up by a parliamentary committee a week ago over liberal extensions given to RIM on providing messages to security agencies in a readable format. Unlike the intransigent stance it took in India, RIM had provided access to its services to the U.S. and China.

The real question is, who doesn't have access to encrypted BBM messages?

The iPhone 6 comes with 1 Gb of memory. And has options for 16, 64 and 128 Gb of storage.
Why does this even get published?

Because 16GB it is considered useless with todays ever growing Application, Photo and Video sizes...and ironically OS Sizes. Even. National newspapers are discussing it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

I don't know why I'm bothering to respond to this but it's a slow day so.....

"You're so completely full of shit" - Nice to meet you too.

I see that you have conveniently sidestepped the two main points of my post. 1) He is a tax dodger. 2) There is little if any evidence that he actually donates any of his own money to these various causes.

The link above describes it in more detail but why would U2 move their corporate operations to a region of the Netherlands that is tax free? The same reason Facebook does it. Same reason that the Kennedy family set up overseas Trusts in places like the Isle of Man. Same reason that Mitt Romney set up offshore accounts. To avoid paying taxes. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

As much as I'm sure it irks you, these people are all playing the same game. These people have all made a lot of money and don't want to give more of it than they have to to their respective governments. So they set up these elaborate schemes to move money offshore to places with lower (or no) tax burdens for the EXPRESS PURPOSE of dodging taxes.

In your little world it's ok to do that - as long as their politics agree with your politics. Bono gets a pass because he is a "progressive". Meanwhile, Mitt Romney/Dick Chaney, etc. are vilified as "tax cheats". Well you can't have it both ways, pal. All of them are tax cheats, regardless of politics.

So don't give me your sanctimonious bullshit about how Bono is such a great guy. Sure, he talks a good game but when it comes time to step up and donate some of his vast fortune he's not getting it done.

The ONE Campaign, which I'm sure you are familiar with, was started by our good friend Bono. You might also be aware that it has come under fire due to the fact that only 1.2% of everything collected was actually given to charities.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

I'll do the math for you. That means that if I donate $100 to the ONE Campaign then only $1.20 is going towards the cause. That ain't getting it done, son.

"The facts are, if everyone were and did as Bono and Gore do, we wouldn't have crushing poverty and war" - Ummm no. If everyone did as Bono did then 98.8% of all charitable donations would be wasted. Not only is that disgraceful, it will have no meaningful impact on poverty whatsoever.

Hardly what I'd call diligent.

A far cry from "proven to make up data and conceals data that doesn't fit his ideology".

Maybe you find this kind of diligence more to your liking? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

And this is known as lying.

Like using a trick to hide a decline? :) Or maybe identity theft and forgery? http://fakegate.org/

I'll gladly pillory John Lott for sock puppetry if we'll put Peter Gleick and Phil Jones in jail for their sins :)

Ted Goertzel considered multiple regression to be not of much use in proving causal arguments

And there we agree - data diving is notorious for being unable to differentiate correlation and causality (The China Study being a prime example - http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/... - the AGW scam is another).

That being said, John Lott has undoubtedly done a more thorough job than any other researcher in the field on trying to include control variables - for all the critiques that can be laid against him, there's simply nobody else out there doing a better job...and he's even *invited* his naysayers to critique his work, reaching out to them to try and add to the body of knowledge, looking for control variables they might think of that he might not.

Here's an excerpt, regarding Susan Glick:

"However, when the publicity broke on the story with an article in USA Today on August 2, she was among the many people who left telephone messages immediately asking for a copy of the paper. In her case, the media were calling, and she “need[ed] [my] paper to be able to criticize it.” Because of all the commotion that day, I was unable to get back to her right away. ABC National Television News was doing a story on my study for that day, and when at around 3:00 p.m. the ABC reporter doing the story, Barry Serafin, called saying that certain objections had been raised about my paper, he mentioned that one of those who had criticized it was Ms. Glick. After talking to Mr. Serafin, I gave Glick a call to ask her if she still wanted a copy of my paper. She said that she wanted it sent to her right away and wondered if I could fax it to her. I then noted that her request seemed strange because I had just gotten off the telephone with Mr. Serafin at ABC News, who had told me that she had been very critical of the study, saying that it was “flawed.” I asked how she could have said that there were flaws in the paper without even having looked at it yet. At that point Ms. Glick hung up the telephone."

Hardly what I'd call diligent :)

So I'm trying to quantify the proprtion of nutrition label calories that get turned to ATP, and it seems that there's not much consensus. Here is an article claiming that "the calories that you see written on the back of a food pack have already had all of these adjustments made for the amount that will be digested and absorbed". Here is an article claiming that what's on the label could differ from what you actually metabolize by maybe 20%. Based on my non-scientific survey of google search results, a majority of people believe actual caloric value to differ from label caloric value, but there doesn't seem to be any consensus regarding what percentage is metabolized on average. Looks like I'll need to shit into a bomb calorimeter if I want a real answer.

Was hoping that I'd have some extra wiggle room in my diet based on all of this, but it's not clear that that's the case. So much for quantified self.

What's settled is that the climate is changing at the hands of man

Yeah, sure. And every time I jump, the Earth moves (a little bit) in the opposite direction. Right... No, what is far from settled, is whether the humanity's impact is anything to speak of — or whether a single volcano's eruption produces more "greenhouse effect gases", than the Earth's entire bovine population and thus there is little justification in limiting beef-consumption on that account.

In other words, what's very far from being "settled" is whether humanity's impact matches that of other factors. Counting CO2 — and making predictions based on that — has already been demonstrated to be stupid. By those predictions, for example, Arctic ice should've disappeared this summer — instead, it has grown.

Kudos for tossing in the pinch of anti-government paranoia, it has to be that and not the desire for massively profitable fossil fuel corporations to defend said profits.

The profits of fossil fuel corporations are not endangered by the "green" moves at all — the demand for oil and gas is unaffected. Besides, for each such corporation, there is a bunch of solyndras peddling their wares to the "green" crowd — you aren't going to convince many, that it is the corporate world, that opposes "green initiatives".

But for the government folks — those, who are sincerely convinced, they know better than their subjects — this is a perfect way to expand their control. And if the already government-heavy countries (like Cuba) are helping persuade the free world's scientists, then all the better. Let's look the other way...

There was no blood other than the victims on the shawl. And even that was only determined to match through mitochondrial DNA.
What they claim to have matched "definitely, categorically and absolutely" to the murderer are "traces of semen thought to belong to the killer".
Traces of semen. On the clothes of ONE of the victims. Who was a prostitute.

Clearly, "Only non-believers that want to perpetuate the myth will doubt."
Non-believers perpetuating myths? I'm not sure that's how it goes.

From TFA:
       

A blood-stained shawl belonging to one of the Ripper's victims bought at an auction in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 2007 was used as the basis for the research.
As well as being soaked in her blood, it was found to have traces of semen thought to belong to the killer.
Mr Edwards said: âoeI've got the only piece of forensic evidence in the whole history of the case.
âoeI've spent 14 years working on it, and we have definitively solved the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was.
"Only non-believers that want to perpetuate the myth will doubt. This is it now - we have unmasked him."

BUT WAIT! There is more... it is once again mitochondrial.
In other words...

Critics, however, have pointed out that the DNA comparisons focused on mitochondrial DNA, which could be shared by anything from between 1% and 10% of the population, so it was hardly unique to Sickert.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

It was impossible to extract DNA from the stains on the shawl using the method employed in current cases, in which swabs are taken. The samples were just too old.

Instead, he used a method he called âvacuumingâ(TM), using a pipette filled with a special âbufferingâ(TM) liquid that removed the genetic material in the cloth without damaging it.
As a non-scientist, I found myself in a new world as Jari warned that it would also be impossible to use genomic DNA, which is used in fresh cases and contains a humanâ(TM)s entire genetic data, because over time it would have become fragmented.

But he explained it would be possible to use mitochondrial DNA instead. It is passed down exclusively through the female line, is much more abundant than genomic DNA, and survives far better.

Making it exactly as valid as the Walter Sickert "evidence" from postage stamps.

Not yet. I doubt Russia is going to make such claims until it has military capability that is greater than the one U.S has. Not even the Soviet Union did regard Alaska as an issue or the fact it used to belong to Russia (pre-Soviet Union). Russia today under Putin is dangerous country and its media is full of lies and deceptions.

As for list of Russia land grabs. It seems we have our next target. That is Kazakhstan.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

While Daily Mail is not the most reliable source, they just might have a point on Russia wanting to take over Belarus too. Even if they are now "allies", or so the dictator of Belarus believes at the moment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Putin is not out to build new Soviet Union. He is out to expand Russia and that is a totally different matter. He has already had some success doing to with his less economic able neighbour countries.

Double posting on this thread but so you have it in the same tree:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

No tailwind required :-)

"Can Not" != "May Not"

The whole point of Formula 1 is that all cars are under a very tight parameter restriction so the race is in the hands of the driver more than it is the mechanics. (Not to say they are all truly "equal" but they could be.)

Electric cars are more than capable of going faster than that:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Get your facts right.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html

20+ years ago, a friend of mine was dieing from stomach cancer. Hospice, home to die. Doctor's gave him 2 months to live, he lasted seven. He had an I.V. drip hooked up to him in his bedroom, a metering device programmed by the R.N. to administer regulated doses of morphine, with a large red button that we could press to give him an extra dose of morphine. The man had bedsores that were excruciating for him to deal with, on top of the stomach cancer pain.

This was in 1992. There was no such thing then as medical marijuana. Whenever that man wanted to smoke pot, we made sure it was there for him, and yes, it eased his pain. There was never a need for discussion of whether it was legal. He needed it, he got it. And pot wasn't as powerful then as todays strains are.

To deny anyone in legitimate legal pain from having access to medical marijuana is a crime against humanity. No politician should have the right to 'decree' that people in pain should be denied easement of their pain, in my opinion.

Legalization of marijuana comes with many caveats. I do not want my bus/cab/train/plane drivers/pilots using marijuana, the THC content of todays marijuana are much stronger than they were back in the 1960's. Someone ingesting THC can 'fade out' while driving, or else we will see more of these type of videos....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

To be made broadly legal will involve a learning curve of laws that will need to be enacted. If your job involves transporting people, pot (like alcohol), needs to be used responsibly, and never 'on the job', especially since today's pot potency is much higher than what it was from days past.

Like these ones?