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As Chairman Mao noted, a revolution is not a dinner party. If you are calling for a "worker's revolution" I doubt you will be stopping this side of communism. And in practical terms that has proven to be a bloody mess pretty much everywhere it has been tried.

The Black Book of Communism

Trademark fair use is something different; you have to show that the use is purely descriptive, using only the primary meaning (ie the everyday English language meaning), not the secondary meaning (ie identifying the product).

Wrong, trademarks can be used to identify the product or service. There is even case law to support this. See New Kids on the Block v. News Am. Pub., Inc., 971 F.2d 302 (9th Cir. 1992) where USA Today's use of the New Kids on the Block trademark was upheld because it was used only so much as to identify them.

To be sure, this is not the classic fair use case where the defendant has used the plaintiff's mark to describe the defendant's own product. Here, the New Kids trademark is used to refer to the New Kids themselves. We therefore do not purport to alter the test applicable in the paradigmatic fair use case. If the defendant's use of the plaintiff's trademark refers to something other than the plaintiff's product, the traditional fair use inquiry will continue to govern. But, where the defendant uses a trademark to describe the plaintiff's product, rather than its own, we hold that a commercial user is entitled to a nominative fair use defense provided he meets the following three requirements: First, the product or service in question must be one not readily identifiable without use of the trademark; second, only so much of the mark or marks may be used as is reasonably necessary to identify the product or service; [FN7] and third, the user must do nothing that would, in conjunction with the mark, suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder.

I thought there's a shortage of qualified doctors? Given the crazy hours many doctors are working, there seems to be a shortage in many areas.

We should weed out those unfit to become doctors, but from what I see exceedingly few doctors (from GPs to surgeons, to neurosurgeons) need to know organic chemistry to the level the courses are requiring. All they need to know is enough to look stuff up if they ever need to - which might happen say once in a few decades?

Heck between organic chemistry and hygiene practices I think I'd prefer doctors and nurses who were better at washing their hands and had high hygiene awareness (e.g. they know when they've contaminated themselves or something): http://www.acep.org/Clinical---Practice-Management/Hand-Hygiene-Program-Halves-Spread-of-MRSA-in-Hospitals/

Wash hands, use hand directly to turn tap off or open door = hand re-contaminated = you've just wasted your time washing your hands.

Another thing the knowledge of many doctors (or anyone) on "eating healthily" based on actual sound scientific research is very poor. Prevention is better than cure, and diet does a fair bit in prevention, and yet the advice many doctors give and have given is not based on scientific evidence. Many are just as in the dark as the man on the street.

Very few even give advice close to this:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Eat_Drink_and_Be_Healthy.htm

For example, many doctors tell you to avoid eggs and other high cholesterol foods (e.g. squid) when there's not that much evidence that it's that bad for people who aren't diabetic:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

There's plenty that doctors should know, but I'd like to see some evidence that knowing organic chemistry to the level required is really going to help patients or doctors that much. Otherwise weeding them out based on that seems almost as stupid as weeding them out based on their lack of knowledge in nuclear physics.

I thought there's a shortage of qualified doctors? Given the crazy hours many doctors are working, there seems to be a shortage in many areas.

We should weed out those unfit to become doctors, but from what I see exceedingly few doctors (from GPs to surgeons, to neurosurgeons) need to know organic chemistry to the level the courses are requiring. All they need to know is enough to look stuff up if they ever need to - which might happen say once in a few decades?

Heck between organic chemistry and hygiene practices I think I'd prefer doctors and nurses who were better at washing their hands and had high hygiene awareness (e.g. they know when they've contaminated themselves or something): http://www.acep.org/Clinical---Practice-Management/Hand-Hygiene-Program-Halves-Spread-of-MRSA-in-Hospitals/

Wash hands, use hand directly to turn tap off or open door = hand re-contaminated = you've just wasted your time washing your hands.

Another thing the knowledge of many doctors (or anyone) on "eating healthily" based on actual sound scientific research is very poor. Prevention is better than cure, and diet does a fair bit in prevention, and yet the advice many doctors give and have given is not based on scientific evidence. Many are just as in the dark as the man on the street.

Very few even give advice close to this:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Eat_Drink_and_Be_Healthy.htm

For example, many doctors tell you to avoid eggs and other high cholesterol foods (e.g. squid) when there's not that much evidence that it's that bad for people who aren't diabetic:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

There's plenty that doctors should know, but I'd like to see some evidence that knowing organic chemistry to the level required is really going to help patients or doctors that much. Otherwise weeding them out based on that seems almost as stupid as weeding them out based on their lack of knowledge in nuclear physics.

I thought there's a shortage of qualified doctors? Given the crazy hours many doctors are working, there seems to be a shortage in many areas.

We should weed out those unfit to become doctors, but from what I see exceedingly few doctors (from GPs to surgeons, to neurosurgeons) need to know organic chemistry to the level the courses are requiring. All they need to know is enough to look stuff up if they ever need to - which might happen say once in a few decades?

Heck between organic chemistry and hygiene practices I think I'd prefer doctors and nurses who were better at washing their hands and had high hygiene awareness (e.g. they know when they've contaminated themselves or something): http://www.acep.org/Clinical---Practice-Management/Hand-Hygiene-Program-Halves-Spread-of-MRSA-in-Hospitals/

Wash hands, use hand directly to turn tap off or open door = hand re-contaminated = you've just wasted your time washing your hands.

Another thing the knowledge of many doctors (or anyone) on "eating healthily" based on actual sound scientific research is very poor. Prevention is better than cure, and diet does a fair bit in prevention, and yet the advice many doctors give and have given is not based on scientific evidence. Many are just as in the dark as the man on the street.

Very few even give advice close to this:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Eat_Drink_and_Be_Healthy.htm

For example, many doctors tell you to avoid eggs and other high cholesterol foods (e.g. squid) when there's not that much evidence that it's that bad for people who aren't diabetic:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

There's plenty that doctors should know, but I'd like to see some evidence that knowing organic chemistry to the level required is really going to help patients or doctors that much. Otherwise weeding them out based on that seems almost as stupid as weeding them out based on their lack of knowledge in nuclear physics.

Why do Canadians often come to the States for treatment?

The number of Canadians who receive any health care in the United States for care is vanishingly small. In a country of 30 million people, it is relatively easy to find a few who do so, and who can offer a sound bite for a newscast or an anecdote for a blogger. The fraction of Canadians who receive medical care in U.S. hospitals and clinics appears to be around the 0.5% mark.--of whom roughly 4 out of 5 do so because they happened to fall ill while visiting the United States, and not because they travelled there to receive medical services.

For certain urgent care services, communities close to the Canada-U.S. border can and do make arrangements to share facilities. (If someone has an urgent need for specialized cardiac or neurological care, you want to go to the nearest major hospital, not just the nearest one on your side of the border. Patients flow in both directions under these agreements; there are regular transfers from northern Washington state to Vancouver hospitals.)

Why does the Elderly death rate in Britain start climbing, late in the summer, and start going down again after the new Fiscal Year starts ??

Because high temperatures combined with substantial swings in temperature - typical late-summer weather, and likely exacerbated by climate change - are physically stressful. The same pattern is observed in the United States.

For that matter, why are so many doctors from Single-payer countries practicing in the States, instead ???

I don't have all the data at my fingertips, but in every year since 2004, there has been a small net migration of doctors out of the United States and in to Canada. Further, doctors practicing in Canada (and in the UK) report being significantly more satisfied in their jobs that their colleagues in the United States.

First off, film was *not* designed to capture an accurate spectrum. If you took a picture of bouquet of flowers, and compared the spectrum of that image to the original's, the spectra would be quite different even if the color reproduction was perfect.

That's because color isn't a physical property like wavelength. It is a physiological response to wavelength. This sounds like splitting hairs, but it's not. Two different mixes of wavelengths can produce the same perceived color if they stimulate the cones in human eyes the same way. Birds and reptiles have *four* primary colors instead of three (we know this by studying the cones in their eyes). By avian standards mammals are color-blind to colors we obviously don't even have names for. If they looked at our "accurate" color pictures, it wouldn't look right to them at all. Starlings that look black to us might appear a deep -- something to other birds.

Second, while the goal for film might be to reproduce the same color response in humans as if they were looking at the original scene (although that's debatable, e.g. Kodachrome, Technicolor), in engineering an objective is only as good as the tests you measure success with. Up until the 1990s, movie studios shot images of models (the human kind) holding color strips to help film technicians to establish a consistent color balance (link with "China Girl" pictures). These were inserted into the prints so you could check that the print was developed properly. But since models in these pictures were *white*, the test only ensured good results for white skin.

Finally film is far from perfect in reproducing human perception. How many times have you seen an amazing scene, shot a picture, and have the picture come out "meh"? You have to understand the properties of the recording and playback media, and consciously take them into account to get a controlled result.

Not only that but there is a bit of a "its how you look at it". A lot of evidence on the disease indicates that there are likely several factors involved and that the damage starts decades before symptoms. That means that.... sometime in her 30s or 40s is really when she needs the breakthrough by....but
it also means that she can be mindful of it.

Take this: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/use-it-or-lose-it/

Evidence that using the mind, and and being stimulated by different environments (something that we naturally tend to do less of as we age and get into lifelong habbits) helps:

The ability of an enriched, novel environment to prevent amyloid beta protein from affecting the signaling strength and communication between nerve cells was seen in both young and middle-aged wild-type mice.

Seems like evidence to me that being mindful of propensity for the disease early does, right now, give some possibilities for mitigating the worst of it down the road. Maybe not now as she is 5 years old, but later in her 30s and 40s.

Kinda makes me think I should switch up hobbies or....drop acid again.

Perhaps he is a responsible individual that has set aside enough money to pay for an unexpected emergency in the event he gets sick?

Obviously you don't have a clue as to how much it can cost to treat a serious illness. Very few of us have the means to set aside cash for that kind of event.

You know it is possible to survive in this world without health insurance. People have been doing it in this country pretty much since the day it was founded.

Wrong. People die from lack of health insurance.

Your negative view of the general population is actually quite disturbing. You seem to feel we need a nanny state to protect us from ourselves.

Actually I'm not concerned about protecting us from ourselves. Rather, I am concerned about protecting us from people like you, who would choose to forego getting health insurance and put the burden on the rest of us.

"1) Sharing content with people online is a poor substitute for having real-life experiences with, like, kayaking and family gatherings and drinking and stuff."

Is this sponsored content from the booze industry?

The booze industry puts massive efforts into making booze "cool". "Alcohol marketing can shape culture by creating and sustaining expectations and norms about how to achieve social, sporting or sexual success". It's not just commercials. There are discounts for areas near prestigious schools.

$6 trillion. And we got less out of that than Obamacare.

Keep in mind that the number given for China is only the people that monitor web traffic. It doesn't include the secret police and their many informers. I doubt that overall China is less organized in that regard than East Germany was.

It is also worth noting that China has far more brutality in its past than East Germany. The People's Republic of China managed to kill about 65,000,000 of its own citizens. There are even instances of cannibalism as a demonstration or test of party loyalty - "eating the rich," so to speak.

East Germany's communist government is no longer in power. That same Chinese government is still in power, engages in massive espionage by spy and computer against many nations, is aiming nuclear missiles at the US, is building a fleet of aircraft carriers, claiming the territory of its neighbors, and many people say it will be the main power of the next century. Pleasant dreams.

Well then, if you think human life is valuable you should be thankful that the US helped to defend the world from the real monsters. The US and its allies didn't defend themselves empty handed.

The Black Book of Communism - The review from American Enterprise.

The Soviet Story - trailer (You should probably watch the entire thing some day.)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

Well then, if you think human life is valuable you should be thankful that the US helped to defend the world from the real monsters. The US and its allies didn't defend themselves empty handed.

The Black Book of Communism - The review from American Enterprise.

The Soviet Story - trailer (You should probably watch the entire thing some day.)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

By your line of thinking there actually is: the government of the People's Republic of China. You should note that they managed to kill about 65,000,000 people. They actually live up to that sort of reputation even if they have been trying to take the edges off lately (and the reforms may not stick). The US isn't even close to being in the same league.

There is an OCD workshop at McLean Hospital.

http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/

I suggest you go.

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BMO

Oh yes, Google is so willing to cut itself off from a market of 60 million people. That's exactly how they got to be a global giant.

Oh, wait...

Ah, such clarity.

Have you told those clowns at Harvard about this?

You know if you capitalise all of the words in your post it will make what you're saying much more compelling.

If you could point to all of the asteroid resources in orbit, that's be great. If not, why would you imagine I'm talking about staying in orbit? I mean really, even for someone as determined to shriek until the bad facts go away as yourself, that's a bit much in terms of cognitive dissonance.

The ISS, as poor an example as it is, still represents progress. And there's no reason to believe that progress need stop with the ISS. However as we're talking in hypotheticals here my guess and expectation is that history will not agree with your hysteria.

Regarding your other post, the low levels of nitrogen in that kind of asteroid is why you don't just extract nitrogen from them, but oxygen and metals simultaneously. If you wanted to go on a purely nitrogen run you'd just hit up an icy body...

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991ApJ...367..641W

Oh yes and those icy bodies are an enormous source of volatiles which can be readily transformed into rocket fuel and a wide variety of other substances for half nothing.

Really, you haven't a leg to stand on here, and I'm not trying to convince you of anything. This information is being made available for others reading the discussion.

The original press release points to a fully different topic paper.
A better link is http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1307.5711R/

Here is the preprint: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1307.5711R

We use high-resolution H {\alpha} images of 130 planetary nebulae (PNe) to investigate whether there is a preferred orientation for PNe within the Galactic Bulge. The orientations of the full sample have an uniform distribution. However, at a significance level of 0.01, there is evidence for a non-uniform distribution for those planetary nebulae with evident bipolar morphology. If we assume that the bipolar PNe have an unimodal distribution of the polar axis in Galactic coordinates, the mean Galactic position angle is consistent with 90{\deg}, i.e. along the Galactic plane, and the significance level is better than 0.001 (the equivalent of a 3.7{\sigma} significance level for a Gaussian distribution). The shapes of PNe are related to angular momentum of the original star or stellar system, where the long axis of the nebula measures the angular momentum vector. In old, low-mass stars, the angular momentum is largely in binary orbital motion. Consequently, the alignment of bipolar nebulae that we have found indicates that the orbital planes of the binary systems are oriented perpendicular to the Galactic plane. We propose that strong magnetic fields aligned along the Galactic plane acted during the original star formation process to slow the contraction of the star forming cloud in the direction perpendicular to the plane. This would have produced a propensity for wider binaries with higher angular momentum with orbital axes parallel to the Galactic plane. Our findings provide the first indication of a strong, organized magnetic field along the Galactic plane that impacted on the angular momentum vectors of the resulting stellar population.

Pot calling kettle black And the US is in a position to be talking about "fundamental freedoms"?

I think pot is the best explanation for considering that insightful. I don't see how you don't see the difference between the US and Vietnam. Maybe you haven't heard, but communism tends to have a heavy hand.

Of course, calculators are technically long obsolete. It is exactly their limitations is the reason why they are still around because they produce controlled limits on what the device could do, for example not access the web. With smartphone or tablet already, there is less control for the teacher. There are now apps like "myscript calculator" where one can handwrite formulas onto the screen and it evaluates it. The article still has a point. With calculators, one could still experiment. I had hacked my TI 59 so that it featured a joy stick and use it to control the lights of my room. Also not well known was that it was possible to reprogram the basic functions on the calculator like allocate the sin button to something else. Presumabely this made it cheaper for TI to sell specialized versions of their calculators but the backdoor key combination to allow such mods had not been documented anywhere. (here are pictures of my highschool machine: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/various/ti59/index.html)

Why would you even want that?

Well good news: Cofee May Reduce Risk of Suicide

> "anecdote" is not the singular form of "data".

Yes it is!

http://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/sss/archives/2007/03/the_singular_of.shtml

Wrong. There was one article. One. That's not harping. If there were more than one, then surely they would have been escavated by the denialists by now. Yet they cling to that Newsweek article as if it were referenced by everyone else, every day.

As for scientific articles, you've got access to Google Scholar right now, and guess what? It's got year delimiters. If you want to "teach the controversy", at least use readily available data. Here is a review article to get you started. It's a review article, an overview of the then current research on the subject, so you'll see that it actually has something to say about soot and aerosols:

Several studies in the past have concluded that if these aerosols were distributed uniformly over the earth they would increase the earth's overalll albedo by scattering sunlight and thereby cause a general cooling (Rasool & Schneider 1971, Yamamoto & Tanaka 1972, Bryson & Wendland 1975, Budyko 1977). The reason why this is almost surely not the case are summarized by Kellogg, Coakley & Grams (1975) (see also Kellogg 1977), and they are briefly restated. First, such industrial aerosols (and the same would apply to agricultural slash-and-burn smoke) do not remain airborne in the lower levels of the atmosphere for more than about five days on average (Moore, Poet & Martell 1973). That means they are a regional phenomenon and are limited for the most part to the land areas where they were created.

I'm a bit impressed that the referenced article by Yamamoto and Tanaka (1972) is also freely available on the interwebs, and can be found here. And even that one accepts global warming due to CO2, and the local variability of aerosols.

Sorry, with the clicky:

non-paywalled version of the article.

I sure hope you aren't a lawyer, since you don't seem to know the law at all.

Check it out.

Your entire post is nothing but a pile of self-aggrandizing offal:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/protein-full-story/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2157221/Maybe-Prince-Charles-right-British-scientists-reveal-plants-really-talk.html

I don't mind other people making the choice to become herbivores, but when you start shoving it down everyone else's throat, or talk shit because other people don't choose the lifestyle you've chosen, I tend to develop a nasty case of gofuckyourself.

Get off that high horse, putz.

Going to an atheist president won't help either. Officially atheist regimes were some of the biggest killers in the last century.

League of Militant Atheists The Black Book of Communism The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.

The Soviet Story (2008)

That's why it must be explained to everyone the DIFFERENCE between ATHEIST AND FREETHINKER.

The strict definition of atheism, only imply you must not believe in god. That's why you can find atheist that are superstitious and/or irrational, atheist who believe in homeopathy, or in Bach flowers, in gods. that's why Stalin is a good example of an irrational, superstitious&cruel atheist.

OTOH, a freethinker rejects irrationality and dogma by principle. A freethinker doesn't believe in god, because of its irrationality needed to believe the absurd religious scenarios, but he also can't be superstitious or irrational at all, in any other area, not only in subjects regarding to religion.

Going to an atheist president won't help either. Officially atheist regimes were some of the biggest killers in the last century.

League of Militant Atheists The Black Book of Communism The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.

The Soviet Story (2008)

That's why it must be explained to everyone the DIFFERENCE between ATHEIST AND FREETHINKER.

The strict definition of atheism, only imply you must not believe in god. That's why you can find atheist that are superstitious and/or irrational, atheist who believe in homeopathy, or in Bach flowers, in gods. that's why Stalin is a good example of an irrational, superstitious&cruel atheist.

OTOH, a freethinker rejects irrationality and dogma by principle. A freethinker doesn't believe in god, because of its irrationality needed to believe the absurd religious scenarios, but he also can't be superstitious or irrational at all, in any other area, not only in subjects regarding to religion.

Going to an atheist president won't help either. Officially atheist regimes were some of the biggest killers in the last century.

League of Militant Atheists
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.

The Soviet Story (2008)

Going to an atheist president won't help either. Officially atheist regimes were some of the biggest killers in the last century.

League of Militant Atheists
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Black Book of Communism is one of those rare books that really matters. It is the first systematic and comparative analysis of the "crimes, terror and repression" that accompanied Communism everywhere and that seemed to define its "genetic code." The book's centerpiece is a relentlessly documented narrative of political violence and repression in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, drawing on extensive archival materials made available to researchers since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. But The Black Book also contains absorbing accounts of Communist repression in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World.

The Soviet Story (2008)

Feel free. Then take a look at his posts. He has made multiple posts with his unsubstantiated claim against me and another person simply because we have opinions he disagrees with. He keeps direction people to his web site.

He, and other people, would do just about anything to keep people from seeing the true face of Soviet communism since they realize that many of the inflated claims would shrivel in the face of it. Its like thinking that your parents are the most oppressive people in the world for not letting you go out on a school night while you were a teenager, and then coming to the realization that they in fact greatly loved and cared for you, too late, once you are in a third world hell hole of a prison. That understates the difference, but it makes is approachable for the average person.

So, if you are truly interested in reviewing evidence, have at it:

The Soviet Story (2008)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

Feel free. Then take a look at his posts. He has made multiple posts with his unsubstantiated claim against me and another person simply because we have opinions he disagrees with. He keeps direction people to his web site.

He, and other people, would do just about anything to keep people from seeing the true face of Soviet communism since they realize that many of the inflated claims would shrivel in the face of it. Its like thinking that your parents are the most oppressive people in the world for not letting you go out on a school night while you were a teenager, and then coming to the realization that they in fact greatly loved and cared for you, too late, once you are in a third world hell hole of a prison. That understates the difference, but it makes is approachable for the average person.

So, if you are truly interested in reviewing evidence, have at it:

The Soviet Story (2008)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

Only to those unfamiliar with Soviet history.

The Soviet Story (2008)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

It is a sign of very great confusion indeed to equate the actions of Western police and intelligence agencies acting to prevent terrorists attacks on their peoples with the raw power of Soviet communism used to enslave the people and destroy entire classes of people.

Only to those unfamiliar with Soviet history.

The Soviet Story (2008)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

It is a sign of very great confusion indeed to equate the actions of Western police and intelligence agencies acting to prevent terrorists attacks on their peoples with the raw power of Soviet communism used to enslave the people and destroy entire classes of people.

Of course I'm not surprised. Goebels would be proud to see how well his lessons were learned and laugh on the irony of how his victors would call themselves moraly superior.

The Western allies, victorious over both Nazi fascism and Soviet communism, have been overall morally superior. If that isn't clear, you're missing out on some history.

The Soviet Story (2008) (Goebbels is mentioned in this, by the way.)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

There is little to separate Snowden from Philby. The full damage from Snowden has yet to be fully revealed, but it is already beginning to accumulate. That people confuse him for a hero speaks to the moral confusion of our age.
   

Of course I'm not surprised. Goebels would be proud to see how well his lessons were learned and laugh on the irony of how his victors would call themselves moraly superior.

The Western allies, victorious over both Nazi fascism and Soviet communism, have been overall morally superior. If that isn't clear, you're missing out on some history.

The Soviet Story (2008) (Goebbels is mentioned in this, by the way.)
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

There is little to separate Snowden from Philby. The full damage from Snowden has yet to be fully revealed, but it is already beginning to accumulate. That people confuse him for a hero speaks to the moral confusion of our age.
   

Yes, the Soviet Union was worse than Czarist Russia. Some of the old revolutionaries that had been imprisoned under the Czar, and who inevitably ran afoul of the Bolsheviks said that the Czar's secret police beat them with wooden sticks, but the Bolsheviks, the communists, beat them with bars of Iron. Stalin was a criminal for all time, but Lenin was blood thirsty as well.

This is eye opening.
The Soviet Story (2008)

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The very nature of the communist system predisposes it toward bloody totalitarianism.

Yes, the Soviet Union was worse than Czarist Russia. Some of the old revolutionaries that had been imprisoned under the Czar, and who inevitably ran afoul of the Bolsheviks said that the Czar's secret police beat them with wooden sticks, but the Bolsheviks, the communists, beat them with bars of Iron. Stalin was a criminal for all time, but Lenin was blood thirsty as well.

This is eye opening.
The Soviet Story (2008)

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

The very nature of the communist system predisposes it toward bloody totalitarianism.

It might be the other way around. Were to the proteins responsible source from? Head or body.
Like that experiment where they sew a young and old mouse together as a kind of Siamese twin.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/making-old-hearts-younger/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/10220

However, growth to visible cultures is composed of hundreds of generations, and if you had a more sensitive detector of bacterial reproduction, that didn't have to wait so many generations, you could reach colclusions[sic] a lot faster; limited primarily by the drug uptake rate.

Hmmm....me thinks you should look into your math...:-) (I'm being purely humorous at this point, not meant to be mean, but with real math)

doubling time is about 20 min in ideal circumstances so 100*20 is 2000 min or ~ 33.3 hrs

100 generations == 2^100 bacteria or 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376

each bacteria weights about 9.5^-13g

so total bio mass is about 13,343,690,528,718,204g or 13,343,690,528,718kg or 1.3e13kg

for reference, the earth weighs...5.9e24 kg, (moon is merely 7.3e22, the USS Iowa battleship is about 5.2e7kg, a supertanker is 1.1e10 kg)

For a gram of bacteria (that's a lot!) only takes about 40 generations under ideal circumstances....now I'm ignoring lag and standing phases and focusing on the log phase just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude.

They claim they can detect bacterial metabolism directly. So for bactericides, at least, they don't even have to wait one generation to detect results.

Well, there's still the lag for them to grow to culture, again its the in vivo milieu that needs to be discarded.

I suspect that bacteria could be classified crudely using some variant of flow cytometry, and then you could test antibiotics against each group.

Looks like its been done. Didn't read too far in, I suspect it is not ost effective tho.

Go figure. Fan boy of communism thinks his country, the capitalist USA, needs "a swift kick in the balls from the rest of the world," and the citizens need to get it too. News at 11. The revolution starts at midnight, purges at dawn.

Communism has been a bloody failure worldwide. The problem isn't that it has never been implemented properly, the problem is it isn't possible to implement "properly." It is based on a fundamental misreading of human nature, bad economics, and class warfare leading to the extermination of various social classes. (Round up all the bankers and shoot them, then keep moving down the list.) It is a genocidal creed.

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

Reflections on Communism - Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Although this centers on the Soviet Union, some of it sheds light on some common aspects of communist regimes.
The Soviet Story (2008)

Go figure. Fan boy of communism thinks his country, the capitalist USA, needs "a swift kick in the balls from the rest of the world," and the citizens need to get it too. News at 11. The revolution starts at midnight, purges at dawn.

Communism has been a bloody failure worldwide. The problem isn't that it has never been implemented properly, the problem is it isn't possible to implement "properly." It is based on a fundamental misreading of human nature, bad economics, and class warfare leading to the extermination of various social classes. (Round up all the bankers and shoot them, then keep moving down the list.) It is a genocidal creed.

The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - (book review) by Daniel J. Mahoney

Reflections on Communism - Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Although this centers on the Soviet Union, some of it sheds light on some common aspects of communist regimes.
The Soviet Story (2008)

Communism has been a bloody disaster pretty much everywhere its been tried.

The Black Book of Communism

The Soviet example is instructive.

The Soviet Story (2008)

The Black Book of Communism

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-study-links-l-carnitine-in-red-meat-to-heart-disease-201304176083

The last big internationalist movement was discredited.

The Soviet Story (2008)

The Black Book of Communism

if it was children, where you cut their lifespan from 55 (this is china we are talking about), to 12, that counts as murder.

Maybe it should, IF cancer worked that way, but it almost NEVER does. It's astronomically rare for someone under 40 to exhibit signs of cancer, let alone to DIE of the disease.

http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~wilson/publications/ppaper789.pdf

Other illnesses don't tend to result in multi-year affliction before death. With other kinds of poisoning, you generally either die quickly, or completely recover, with few lingering symptoms. There's always some space in-between, like just the right amount of toxicity to cause some organ failure, but that, too, is quite rare.