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Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Mammalian Stem Cells Reprogramming in Response to Terahertz Radiation
http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
We report that extended exposure to broad-spectrum terahertz radiation results in specific changes in cellular functions that are closely related to DNA-directed gene transcription. Our gene chip survey of gene expression shows that whereas 89% of the protein coding genes in mouse stem cells do not respond to the applied terahertz radiation, certain genes are activated, while other are repressed. RT-PCR experiments with selected gene probes corresponding to transcripts in the three groups of genes detail the gene specific effect. The response was not only gene specific but also irradiation conditions dependent. Our findings suggest that the applied terahertz irradiation accelerates cell differentiation toward adipose phenotype by activating the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG). Finally, our molecular dynamics computer simulations indicate that the local breathing dynamics of the PPARG promoter DNA coincides with the gene specific response to the THz radiation. We propose that THz radiation is a potential tool for cellular reprogramming.

University of Alberta Edmonton
Intense THz pulses cause H2AX phosphorylation and activate DNA damage response in human skin tissue
http://tinyurl.com/jsx5q7x
Recent emergence and growing use of terahertz (THz) radiation for medical imaging and public security screening raise questions on reasonable levels of exposure and health consequences of this form of electromagnetic radiation. In particular, picosecond-duration THz pulses have shown promise for novel diagnostic imaging techniques. However, the effects of THz pulses on human cells and tissues thus far remain largely unknown. We report on the investigation of the biological effects of pulsed THz radiation on artificial human skin tissues. We observe that exposure to intense THz pulses for ten minutes leads to a significant induction of H2AX phosphorylation, indicating that THz pulse irradiation may cause DNA damage in exposed skin tissue. At the same time, we find a THz-pulse- induced increase in the levels of several proteins responsible for cell-cycle regulation and tumor suppression, suggesting that DNA damage repair mechanisms are quickly activated. Furthermore, we find that the cellular response to pulsed THz radiation is significantly different from that induced by exposure to UVA (400 nm).

Exactly. That amount gets defined based on who is willing to purchase the other currencies and how much they are willing to pay for it, which in turn is based on what they can do with the currency they are purchasing.

The novel Time Will Run Back has some great sections hinting about this, particularly when it explains arbitrage between different markets. It's not a literary masterpiece, but it's very interesting. The setting is a lot like 1984.

Europe's economic "growth" is anemic at best: http://tinyurl.com/j7nyh8a And that's not even taking into account the widespread misrepresentations in European economic statistics.

Without a central authority declaring how much a $CURRENCY_UNIT is worth, it's now a democratic decision, influenced primarily by people who possess large quantities of them, as is evident in the Bitcoin community. Whenever currency is involved, there will always be *someone* in charge of determining the value of that currency in terms of the objects intended to be purchased with it.

I'd say the solution to that is for people to be able to declare that they aren't going to use $CURRENCY_UNIT any more and will instead use something else. So somebody has snagged up all the bitcoins or gold or matchsticks or whatever, and the rest of us trade with something else.

This book was really helpful to my thinking about money: http://tinyurl.com/2q4lok

Is there an option? Short of Gene Roddenberry's Utopian society founded upon altruism and self-control...the two options are "a centralized administration" or "tyranny by the wealthy".

No altruism or self-control involved in my proposed solution. Just freedom for all.

If they want to cut the death toll, the answer is obvious: spend the money on public transportation.

The answer is obvious and wrong. Even in places like Germany, France, and the UK, the countries with the most highly developed public transportation systems, 85% or more of passenger miles are traveled by passenger car (and that number is increasing over time), and less than 10% by rail. http://tinyurl.com/zw7bdos So, even if we managed to achieve the same public transit ridership as, say, Germany, it would decrease the number of fatalities by maybe 10% (to get a better estimate, you have to take into split between long distance/local trips, fatality rates of public transportation, etc.). But that would be after massive spending and continuing subsidies, giving a lousy return on investment in terms of lives saved. (Incidentally, the US has the biggest rail system in the world and it is utilized nearly 100% for freight. If you were to focus more on passenger transport by long distance rail, you'd end up pushing freight traffic to the roads.)

I prefer PRT (e.g. Skytran [wikipedia.org]), because it offers all of the common practical advantages of automobiles yet also uses the best and most highly-developed technology for automated vehicle guidance: rail.

PRT is a wonderful boondoggle for privileged middle-class snobs like you. However, when it comes to cost-efficient, sensible urban transportation that actually helps people who need public transit, buses are the right choice. Of course, they are cheap and unglamorous, so people like you don't support them. Buses also don't need massive federal spending.

Hah! Told you so! (recursion is the key to self awareness, also see "I Am A Strange Loop" by Hofstaeder) http://tinyurl.com/h8dww8n.

If that's true it means they do well when they're young and then everything goes to shit. At least I can't think of any reason why they'd drop out. In other words, after they're used up their quality of life goes down

No, in fact, it's the exact opposite: incomes go up as people get older. It should also be obvious why: as people get older, they gain more experience and advance in their careers, so they get salary raises. You have to be utterly disconnected from economic life not to understand such a basic fact. http://tinyurl.com/pebklkm

Now, the real ruling class is just that: A Class. You don't drop out of that.

True. But the argument progressives and people like Sanders make is that "the 1%" actually constitute "the ruling class", that the problem is money, and that the problem can be fixed by redistribution and taxation. That argument is obviously bullshit given the intragenerational income mobility we see.

The US may or may not have some other form of "ruling class" that isn't rooted in money. You're welcome to make an argument for that. There certainly are such ruling classes in Europe, in countries with much more economic equality and higher relative upward mobility.

Google "Upward Mobility In America" sometime. When the top 3 results stop being about how it's a myth we'll talk.

I did better: I immigrated to the US and experienced upward mobility that people in other countries can only dream of. People like you strike me as whiny, greedy, and ignorant because you simply lack any appreciation of how well the US works.

The statistics that people cite on intergenerational mobility and comparing it between countries are bullshit; they are based on relative mobility, and that's high in countries with government-imposed equality, for all the wrong reasons.

There are issues with it though. See my https://groups.google.com/foru...|sort:date/mozilla.support.firefox/N3wPDW8YEJk/GcCVilBOBQAJ (or http://preview.tinyurl.com/4kc... ) newsgroup thread that I recently discovered with http://ocregister.com/ and http://rottentomatoes.com/ 's e-mail address login. :(

Citation required.

Are you trolling, it is extremely well documented:
http://tinyurl.com/fucfz

There's a bunch of speculation going on in this thread based on personal anecdote... let's have a look at some data shall we?

Let's compare the ngrams of the words 'bespoke' 'customized' and 'customised' between the USA and UK:

USA: http://tinyurl.com/usabespoke
UK: http://tinyurl.com/ukbespoke

You can see that in both cases bespoke had its primetime in the first half of the nineteenth century, falling off and hitting its nadir at around 1980, with a resurgence in usage since then.

However, it's also clear that the usage of 'bespoke' is more common in British English than it is in American English, although not by a huge margin - current usage (in books) is about 70% more common in British English than it is in American English.

Obviously the huge cavéat here is that these ngrams describe how language is written in books, rather than how it is spoken.

There's a bunch of speculation going on in this thread based on personal anecdote... let's have a look at some data shall we?

Let's compare the ngrams of the words 'bespoke' 'customized' and 'customised' between the USA and UK:

USA: http://tinyurl.com/usabespoke
UK: http://tinyurl.com/ukbespoke

You can see that in both cases bespoke had its primetime in the first half of the nineteenth century, falling off and hitting its nadir at around 1980, with a resurgence in usage since then.

However, it's also clear that the usage of 'bespoke' is more common in British English than it is in American English, although not by a huge margin - current usage (in books) is about 70% more common in British English than it is in American English.

Obviously the huge cavéat here is that these ngrams describe how language is written in books, rather than how it is spoken.

Finally, once all this has been done, you can go and spend your billions on some bombers.

We'd love to. Unfortunately, Europe and Asia are politically so immature that they can't be left to their own devices, as the 20th century has shown, otherwise world wars and genocides happen. That's why the US spends trillions on its military.

Now, personally I'd say let Europeans kill each other again if they want to, but presumably, another fascist or communist takeover in Europe or Japan just wouldn't be good for our economy.

As for the US infrastructure and wealth, don't worry your little head over it, the US is doing quite well. http://tinyurl.com/p9locwe

For TinyURL, you can enable preview of the full URL here. Uses a cookie, though.

Check out this super cute goat picture.

http://bit.ly/1ALmF5p

Check out this super cute goat picture.

Oh, I guess goo.gl is probably sanitizing the escape sequence to %2500 , bit.ly does the same thing.

tinyurl.com does not... however it does appear to try to grab the source URL first, so http://tinyurl.com/qekdsr9 just kinda spins forever.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/qek... leads to another page with a link to http://a/%%30%30 , which will crash Chrome if you bother to scroll down and mouseover it.

As some people have sorta mentioned, the mouseover seems to just crash one tab, but actually manually typing it into the URL bar and hitting enter will crash the entire browser, just after it appears to rewrite it to %00.

Oh, I guess goo.gl is probably sanitizing the escape sequence to %2500 , bit.ly does the same thing.

tinyurl.com does not... however it does appear to try to grab the source URL first, so http://tinyurl.com/qekdsr9 just kinda spins forever.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/qek... leads to another page with a link to http://a/%%30%30 , which will crash Chrome if you bother to scroll down and mouseover it.

As some people have sorta mentioned, the mouseover seems to just crash one tab, but actually manually typing it into the URL bar and hitting enter will crash the entire browser, just after it appears to rewrite it to %00.

This application of copyright law is properly ridiculous and wouldn't stand in a court with a sensible judge.

A definition of the word "copy" yields (New Oxford American Dictionary):
1 a thing made to be similar or identical to another
2 a single specimen of a particular book, record, or other publication or issue
3 matter to be printed

Therefore, in that context, the first definition applies. A copy of something, by definition, implies that one should be able to use it in the same ways as the original (being similar or identical).
In the case of a dish, taking a picture cannot hence be considered a copy since I can eat the original, but not the picture (even less so when it's digital). What definition of similar can actually lead to consider that a picture (even more a digital one) is even remotely "similar" to plate with food in it no matter how beautifully arranged?

Likewise, merely taking a picture of a building won't provide me with a roof, and how can it be a copy?

This is somehow illustrated by Magritte's 1948 painting of a (smoking) pipe: "ceci n'est pas une pipe"
http://tinyurl.com/owclu9e

To conclude, it seems that everything revolving around copyright nowadays has become lightyears more surrealistic than one of the leading surrealist painters of the twentieth century.

I <3 Pluto

Greece should never have been part of the Euro, in the first place: http://tinyurl.com/yzj8tzo

However the 'enthusiasm' of Goldman and probably the rest of Wall Street + [intellectually dishonest] desire from the EU Commission to have a great deal of buy-in [whatever the cost] pushed them in.

To declare interest, I'm a Brit, I worked for the commission for nearly ten years and for an investment bank in London. I don't admire or believe in either of them. I'm not a big fan of the euro, it connects everything and puts it [south and north, large and small] into a straitjacket. Indeed I'm a supporter of community currencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... an idea that Bernard Lietaer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... also supports.

Greece is a mess, but basically this is warfare without guns. Maybe that's the future?

Sometimes an anti-piracy scheme comes into play that the only reply can be "well done". http://tinyurl.com/p8e75q5
This links to /. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

I had to use tinyurl without preview to get it to fit, have to sell it first - if your going to take the time to share a great read.

These aren't new. In fact, the linked article is nearly a year old.

I can buy these at my local Menards.

http://tinyurl.com/l3dfdun

These are the search results for: rifle shots in alyeska pipeline http://preview.tinyurl.com/mtu...

Fortunately, a vacuum spill is much easier to clean up than an oil spill.

Allowing the air pressure to equalize inside, or am I just a pessimist...

While remote and nothing like along side I5, the Alyeska pipeline sees many. These are the search results for: rifle shots in alyeska pipeline http://preview.tinyurl.com/mtu...

If you have Google Maps or Apple Maps, you need your data connection. There are other options available. I use Sygic and others are available. All offline. Some free, some you pay for.

If you add a (bluetooth) OBDII dongle, you can get the car data from the engine as well.

Many people have added their tablet (Apple and Android) as their primary interface for media. There is specific software available to do all this. Nothing stops you doing the same with your phone.

At this moment about 95% of the time all my radio does is transfer the sound of my phone to my boxes. I have not configured a radio station yet in the 5 years I have it. On big road trips, I prefer the Garmin, because it is easier to add a route like this into a route on the Garmin using Tyre and the Garmin software.

Added advantages for using my phone and not an internal system? When I want to do changes to it, I can do it at my desk. I can get a new device and upgrade or downgrade it as I please. If I drive with somebody, I can listen to their music. If they steal my car-radio, I buy a new one for 50-100EUR.

Nah, wouldn't happen. It's more likely some transient event like a black hole collision or a neutron star undergoing a transformation.

Or something.

Well, if it isn't roman_mir, the guy who tries to trick people into reading his nonsense journal entries via URL-shorteners.

http://tinyurl.com/bylguza = http://slashdot.org/journal/30...

If you cannot write with pen and paper you will not get a good job. Writing causes you to think better.
With common core drivel destroying education in this country I guess other countries want to dumb down their population as well. There are many sites online for teaching because the schools are doing a terrible job teaching the basics like writing let alone reading and math and history.

Cursive handwriting is disappearing from public schools
http://tinyurl.com/c9pwdsw

Snips from the article: Since 2010, 45 states — including Maryland — and the District have adopted the Common Core standards, which do not require cursive instruction

Snip: recently conducted a study that found that children with neater handwriting developed better reading and math skills than their chicken-scratch peers.

Lol. I disagree with you, but thats a fun way to make an argument.

link
For those too lazy to paste in their URL.

I can't get the story of GamerGate straight. And do you know why I can't get GamerGate's story straight? Because GamerGate themself can't get their story straight. GamerGate's story keeps changing every day.

It's been the same since day one, with new information coming to light as things like the GJP mailing list (which even Jimbo Wales himself admits proves gamergate's claims) as investigations produce results. The people BEING investigated for corruption, bribery, blacklisting, and collusion however have been doing everything in their power to try and distract or plaster over that.

Maybe the problem, as I've repeatedly demonstrated, is that you're just incredibly poorly informed to the point of getting even the most basic facts wrong.

I assure you, this is absolutely the first time I've heard anyone from GamerGate even claim that they have addressed corruption around Shadows of Morder... And you are the first person I've met who claims that GamerGaters have addressed this...

This is frankly ridiculous. TotalBiscuit broke the shadows of mordor story and just googling his name shows it filling the news cycle. Literally just googling this shows one of the most prominent public figures supporting gamergate was literally behind breaking the entire scandal. Even mainstream media like Forbes cited TotalBiscuit on this. You literally can't get even this most basic of facts about what happened and when right and yet you continue to insist that you are completely reliably informed about gamergate because some random people, who you have no proof of even existing, totally told you otherwise.

Mcvos do you have any idea how ridiculous it looks for you to keep insisting "But, uh, random people TOTALLY told me otherwise! I'm not making this up I swear!" without any proof at all while I keep citing back to tons of hard evidence?

But maybe they have. Still, they're not giving remotely as much attention to it as they're giving to Depression Quest.

First off they're barely giving any attention to depression quest in the first place, and even then the attention is because Grayson and Depression Quest are both at the heart of the powderkeg of deplorable conduct going back to last year. Deplorable conduct so offensive to basic human decency that it singlehandedly drove the Escapist to overhaul its policies so it would never happen again and publicly apologize for the part they played in stirring up a vicious lynch mob against a community for people at severe risk of self-harm and suicide. Yknow... exactly the people Depression Quest was supposed to be about and help?

Second you're literally asking why gamergate isn't doing journalists' jobs FOR them. That's a self-answering question. Even though gamergate DID provably give significant attention to Shadows of Mordor (getting its own feature on a youtube channel with two million subscribers).

...and yet all the slurs I've seen first-hand, have come from people defending GamerGate.... Everybody I know who has criticized GamerGate (and of all the gamers I know, nobody supports it) is quite the opposite of that....

Again you're insisting "But it's totes real, HONEST!" without any proof in the face of multiple statistical analyses proving 80-90% of gamergate tweets even directed at those they oppose most strongly are neutral to positive and overwhelming evidence documented across twitter itself and dedicated websites contradicting you here. Leigh Alexander, Arthur Chu, Ian Cheong, Ben Kuchera, Devin Faraci, all of the major leading figures in gaming journalism and on the other side have repeatedly publicly condoned doxing and called people everything from pissbabies to members of the KKK... a cruel irony given the deliberate targeting of black men and other minori

The Seneca LORAN-C station in upstate NY between Rochester and Syracuse, while silent, didn't destroy it's tower or buildings - instead it was taken down one section at a time - and is stacked neatly in the parking lot. Wonder if it's simply been mothballed in case they need to reactivate the system?

http://tinyurl.com/senecaloran

It remains to be seen what support these mobile cards have for double precision floating point (DPFP) operations used in scientific programming applications. The Nvidia 950 M card on the 15" Macbook Pro retina has poor support for DPFP operations and it is very difficult to check even a single test case on these machines. The Nvidia 950 M card offers a paltry 23 Gflops while the host i7 on the 15" Macbook pro offers 120 Gflops. See http://tinyurl.com/cuda-on-mac for details. What do Slashdotters recommend for a mobile, CUDA development laptop ?

Then they aren't Christians. Most abduction stories, if research, will show you that all of these people were/are involved in the occult. Chuck Missler goes into that topic in a few studies http://tinyurl.com/nyhmszd

You tried vegetarianism? Sounds like you tried pastatarianism. You were a junk food veggie, it's pretty clear. Because you're not blaming the " 'healthy' veggies", you're blaming the bread, pasta and sugar.

Umm, no. You are taking two different parts of what I wrote and put them together to make me look as if I was eating only bread and spaghetti. I noted that I was eating "I tried a low fat vegetarian diet for a time in the very late 80's, specifically, I ate eggs for protein, otherwise, all "healthy" veggies and starches.

Tell me where I was talking about pigging on spaghetti and bread. We do okay with eating some starces you know.

As for phytoestrogen, there is NO science backing up your claims of man tits.

Here's some soy products for you to digest

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

or

http://tinyurl.com/lwrbsjw Sorry for the tinyurl, it's from the National Institute of health, and is a really long url otherwise.

Matter of fact, the only studies done so far show phytoestrogens have protecting qualities for regarding cancer.

From Wiki: Evidence is accruing that phytoestrogens may have protective action against diverse health disorders, such as prostate, breast, bowel, and other cancers, cardiovascular disease, brain function disorders and osteoporosis,

And sometimes not http://tinyurl.com/ooef5yn

another NIH study.

I wouldn't call much of what you said an "educated guess.

I wouldn't call much of your response as other than insulting, trying to make me look inconsistent by combining unrelated parts of my writing to attempt to suit your own purposes, then claiming that there is no research to support what I am talking about. Which there clearly is, and more underway. You just trolling for vegans, or not paying attention?

You are a vegan, aren't you?

You tried vegetarianism? Sounds like you tried pastatarianism. You were a junk food veggie, it's pretty clear. Because you're not blaming the " 'healthy' veggies", you're blaming the bread, pasta and sugar.

Umm, no. You are taking two different parts of what I wrote and put them together to make me look as if I was eating only bread and spaghetti. I noted that I was eating "I tried a low fat vegetarian diet for a time in the very late 80's, specifically, I ate eggs for protein, otherwise, all "healthy" veggies and starches.

Tell me where I was talking about pigging on spaghetti and bread. We do okay with eating some starces you know.

As for phytoestrogen, there is NO science backing up your claims of man tits.

Here's some soy products for you to digest

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

or

http://tinyurl.com/lwrbsjw Sorry for the tinyurl, it's from the National Institute of health, and is a really long url otherwise.

Matter of fact, the only studies done so far show phytoestrogens have protecting qualities for regarding cancer.

From Wiki: Evidence is accruing that phytoestrogens may have protective action against diverse health disorders, such as prostate, breast, bowel, and other cancers, cardiovascular disease, brain function disorders and osteoporosis,

And sometimes not http://tinyurl.com/ooef5yn

another NIH study.

I wouldn't call much of what you said an "educated guess.

I wouldn't call much of your response as other than insulting, trying to make me look inconsistent by combining unrelated parts of my writing to attempt to suit your own purposes, then claiming that there is no research to support what I am talking about. Which there clearly is, and more underway. You just trolling for vegans, or not paying attention?

You are a vegan, aren't you?

Same here with my friend and me in Southern CA, USA: ...
[03:58am] * Ant is away: (Auto-Away after 120 mins) [BX-MsgLog On]
ï½ï½ï½ Connection closed from irc...: Remote end closed connection
ï½ï½ï½ BitchX: Servers exhausted. Restarting. ...
03:58AM ï½ï½ï½ Ant [~ant@...socal.res.rr.com] has joined #linux
ï½ï½ï½ Topic (#linux): http://preview.tinyurl.com/muy...
ï½ï½ï½ Topic (#linux): set by Ant!~ant@...socal.res.rr.com at Wed
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03:58AM ï½ï½ï½ KaT [~kat@...socal.res.rr.com] has joined #linux ...

We were glad to be asleep to miss the outage. I hate it when my Internet service goes out like that. :(

By far the biggest killer of wild birds is cats, feral and domestic let out.
Here are a bunch of things (including wind power) that kill more birds per year than solar:
http://tinyurl.com/2v72l2l/

http://tinyurl.com/ko2vocp

I'm surprised that F-35 critics have latched onto this DARPA paper written in 1985 that talks about using higher order harmonics to get accuracy out of long wave radar. To them it could be gospel for arguing against any stealth aircraft. http://tinyurl.com/Darpa-longw...

I like preppers, they rarely, if ever, actually understand the consequences of social collapse, and falsely view increased individualism as the primary consequence of major institutional failure.

They don't consider the social structures that arise in post-governmental situations. The importance of community connectivity increases with importance as rigid social structures fail. You want a local warlord, a gang, a tribe, or some other primitive power structure, if you want to survive in a "lawless" world.

Oh sure, grouping up provides an immediate boost to strength, but It'll only last for so long. This australian case study from 1985 http://tinyurl.com/h4otx proved that such a social structure is only as strong as it's weakest link. A stronger individual will always appear in time and take your group apart. It's pretty much proven as the same results were witnessed in 2 previous studies. I hear they are going to run it again. I expect the same outcome.

Heres a similar sociological study demonstrating the feasibility of individual survival. It's not as targeted at catastrophic social collapse, but i think it's safe to extrapolate. http://tinyurl.com/3xpd3n

Links to Mad Max and Rambo? Shouldn't this be tagged funny?

I like preppers, they rarely, if ever, actually understand the consequences of social collapse, and falsely view increased individualism as the primary consequence of major institutional failure.

They don't consider the social structures that arise in post-governmental situations. The importance of community connectivity increases with importance as rigid social structures fail. You want a local warlord, a gang, a tribe, or some other primitive power structure, if you want to survive in a "lawless" world.

Oh sure, grouping up provides an immediate boost to strength, but It'll only last for so long. This australian case study from 1985 http://tinyurl.com/h4otx proved that such a social structure is only as strong as it's weakest link. A stronger individual will always appear in time and take your group apart. It's pretty much proven as the same results were witnessed in 2 previous studies. I hear they are going to run it again. I expect the same outcome.

Heres a similar sociological study demonstrating the feasibility of individual survival. It's not as targeted at catastrophic social collapse, but i think it's safe to extrapolate. http://tinyurl.com/3xpd3n

Links to Mad Max and Rambo? Shouldn't this be tagged funny?

I like preppers, they rarely, if ever, actually understand the consequences of social collapse, and falsely view increased individualism as the primary consequence of major institutional failure.

They don't consider the social structures that arise in post-governmental situations. The importance of community connectivity increases with importance as rigid social structures fail. You want a local warlord, a gang, a tribe, or some other primitive power structure, if you want to survive in a "lawless" world.

Oh sure, grouping up provides an immediate boost to strength, but It'll only last for so long. This australian case study from 1985 http://tinyurl.com/h4otx proved that such a social structure is only as strong as it's weakest link. A stronger individual will always appear in time and take your group apart. It's pretty much proven as the same results were witnessed in 2 previous studies. I hear they are going to run it again. I expect the same outcome.

Heres a similar sociological study demonstrating the feasibility of individual survival. It's not as targeted at catastrophic social collapse, but i think it's safe to extrapolate. http://tinyurl.com/3xpd3n

I like preppers, they rarely, if ever, actually understand the consequences of social collapse, and falsely view increased individualism as the primary consequence of major institutional failure.

They don't consider the social structures that arise in post-governmental situations. The importance of community connectivity increases with importance as rigid social structures fail. You want a local warlord, a gang, a tribe, or some other primitive power structure, if you want to survive in a "lawless" world.

Oh sure, grouping up provides an immediate boost to strength, but It'll only last for so long. This australian case study from 1985 http://tinyurl.com/h4otx proved that such a social structure is only as strong as it's weakest link. A stronger individual will always appear in time and take your group apart. It's pretty much proven as the same results were witnessed in 2 previous studies. I hear they are going to run it again. I expect the same outcome.

Heres a similar sociological study demonstrating the feasibility of individual survival. It's not as targeted at catastrophic social collapse, but i think it's safe to extrapolate. http://tinyurl.com/3xpd3n

Okay, off-topic but I can hack a 1 point karma drop.

Bill, what even is that url?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy5...

What is even the point of "preview.tinyurl.com"?
It goes to an Evening Sun article by Craig Paskoski here:
http://www.eveningsun.com/news...

And it's filled with some of the loudest javascript I've seen. What do you gain by hiding it in a tinyurl?

is that so special in the US?

It is more rare for someone to do 100 mph where he crashed.

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is Where: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

We Are Headed: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07...

Never Forget: https://tinyurl.com/poorwesley...

They want control of your mind.

This isn't about entertainment at all - the end 'game' is the battle for your mind!

The Mind Has No Firewall | by Timothy L. Thomas. Parameters, Spring 1998, pp. 84-92.
http://pastebin.com/JdkqxBAa

People will like the smaller car and lower price,but if it doesn't have the range... they will not flock to it...

And cargo capacity, don't forget that. This is why I always drive a Peterbilt. First, it's crucial that I can drive 3000 miles with no load, because I reckon some day I might need to drive all the way across the country without stopping.

A semi in that case is handy because I can fill up the back with energy drinks to keep me awake, and a portacabin so I don't have to waste valuable time finding a restroom at a stop.

But the cargo is what's really important. I once thought I would have to move house. It turns out I didn't in the end, but the thought of the panic I would have undergone had I not owned a semi made it all the more worthwhile!

Oh and it's a vocational model on the off chance I might need to move house to somewhere without a paved road.

Honestly, until I see them building small "cars" with this kind of cargo capacity I just don't see people flocking to them.

I think this semi is right up your alley, then: http://tinyurl.com/q7rxj7s

Another vendor: http://tinyurl.com/qc3wdk8 Looks like a faithful reproduction of the original kit.

Well, Ive was one of the most outstanding executive officers this company's ever produced. He was brave, outstanding in every way. And he was a good man, too, humanitarian man, a man of wit and humor. He joined the Software Engineering Group. After that, his... uh... ideas... methods... became... unsound... unsound.

Now he's crossed into California with this mountaineered army of his that... worship... the man... like a god, and follow every order, however ridiculous...

...very obviously, he has gone insane.

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Your mission is to proceed down the San Francisco Bay in a Blue Navy petrol boat, pick up Sir Ive's path at Cupertino, follow it, learn what you can along the way. When you find the officer, infiltrate his team by (ahem-hem) whatever means available, and terminate the executive's position.

...terminate the executive...

...terminate with extreme prejudice.

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