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and a distraction from policy measures that could actually solve the problem (and other pernicious problems at the same time): reducing sugar and ethanol import tariffs drastically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil#Comparison_with_the_United_States
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sc019
http://sugarcaneblog.com/2010/03/22/washington-post-editorial-on-u-s-sugar-policy/
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12623

It is possible that Haiti and other impoverished nations could develop into self-sustaining economies by adopting some of Brazil's agricultural methods while providing a robust, diverse supply of fuel. And with corn's inefficiency versus sugar ethanol, it would go back to its proper market of food, reducing onerous cost burdens imposed on Mexico and Latin America for corn meal, a staple food.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/MainText.4.1.shtml

The increase in the amount of corn used to produce ethanol has exerted upward pressure on corn prices, boosted the demand for cropland, and raised the price of animal feed. Those effects, in turn, have lifted the prices of many farm commodities (for example, soybeans, meat, poultry, and dairy products) and, consequently, the retail price of food. The rise in food prices has affected not only the costs to individual consumers but also spending for the federal government’s food assistance programs.

http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/Ec1F07/tortillas.htm

"The price of oil is driving up the price of corn (because of increased ethanol production), which is driving up the price of tortillas," said Peter Navarro, a business professor at UC Irvine. "You push on one thing and another thing moves," added Navarro, the author of "If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks."

He said the U.S. ethanol stampede could be thought of "as a regressive tax on Mexico, because it raises the price of a basic commodity. In economics, we call these general equilibrium effects. Something happens in one market and it ripples through other markets."

Never underestimate the importance of getting a favorable review.

This has been working well for me for approximately 8 years or so:

http://boykin.acis.ufl.edu/~boykin/2005/projects/directory_policy/policy.html

The main benefit of organizing by year is that once the year is gone, you know that directory will never be written to again, so backing up becomes so easy, I actually very regularly do it. A little rsync, a few computers, and periodic DVD burning means I haven't lost any data in a long time.

I'd like to submit the following real-world research that's been going on for the past six years, minimum:

http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/vp/
Warning: video on-site is stored as Windows Media Player format.

I personally worked on this research project some during my undergraduate years - in particular, the mentioned Cranial Nerve 3 case. Long story short, the project completely simulates a Standardized Patient interaction for the medical students, complete with life-size display and standard questionnaire. The scripting system isn't exactly precanned - okay, you have a limited set of questions, but the medical student isn't told that - they simply ask questions naturally and see what the patient responds with. None of your classic "select from these three to five options" gag that we're typically stuck with in video games.

Even if the speech recognition element of the system doesn't pan out, all you'd have to do is train someone to run the system, rather than how to fully act, speak, and appear as such a patient themselves. In addition, there are certain scenarios (such as the cranial nerve palsy case) where it is completely unsafe to have a newer medical student interviewing such a patient, as said patient would need immediate, highly trained medical intervention due to an immediate (potentially fatal) health risk. In addition, this case in particular is quite rare; thus, if nothing else, there is no other way to have standardized patient training for these cases in a reproducible and safe manner, and this sort of project has a future.

For those interested, this particular lab's research focus with this project is to determine just how much the "virtual environment"/"virtual person" aspect of the system would affect the impact that such interactions would have on those training with it. You'd be surprised at how much people subconsciously treat virtual people like real people... especially as long as the speech recognition is working properly. Do we exhibit the same racial biases toward virtual people as we do toward real people? Yes. (Other publications are also linked on this page.

I'd like to submit the following real-world research that's been going on for the past six years, minimum:

http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/vp/
Warning: video on-site is stored as Windows Media Player format.

I personally worked on this research project some during my undergraduate years - in particular, the mentioned Cranial Nerve 3 case. Long story short, the project completely simulates a Standardized Patient interaction for the medical students, complete with life-size display and standard questionnaire. The scripting system isn't exactly precanned - okay, you have a limited set of questions, but the medical student isn't told that - they simply ask questions naturally and see what the patient responds with. None of your classic "select from these three to five options" gag that we're typically stuck with in video games.

Even if the speech recognition element of the system doesn't pan out, all you'd have to do is train someone to run the system, rather than how to fully act, speak, and appear as such a patient themselves. In addition, there are certain scenarios (such as the cranial nerve palsy case) where it is completely unsafe to have a newer medical student interviewing such a patient, as said patient would need immediate, highly trained medical intervention due to an immediate (potentially fatal) health risk. In addition, this case in particular is quite rare; thus, if nothing else, there is no other way to have standardized patient training for these cases in a reproducible and safe manner, and this sort of project has a future.

For those interested, this particular lab's research focus with this project is to determine just how much the "virtual environment"/"virtual person" aspect of the system would affect the impact that such interactions would have on those training with it. You'd be surprised at how much people subconsciously treat virtual people like real people... especially as long as the speech recognition is working properly. Do we exhibit the same racial biases toward virtual people as we do toward real people? Yes. (Other publications are also linked on this page.

I'd like to submit the following real-world research that's been going on for the past six years, minimum:

http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/vp/
Warning: video on-site is stored as Windows Media Player format.

I personally worked on this research project some during my undergraduate years - in particular, the mentioned Cranial Nerve 3 case. Long story short, the project completely simulates a Standardized Patient interaction for the medical students, complete with life-size display and standard questionnaire. The scripting system isn't exactly precanned - okay, you have a limited set of questions, but the medical student isn't told that - they simply ask questions naturally and see what the patient responds with. None of your classic "select from these three to five options" gag that we're typically stuck with in video games.

Even if the speech recognition element of the system doesn't pan out, all you'd have to do is train someone to run the system, rather than how to fully act, speak, and appear as such a patient themselves. In addition, there are certain scenarios (such as the cranial nerve palsy case) where it is completely unsafe to have a newer medical student interviewing such a patient, as said patient would need immediate, highly trained medical intervention due to an immediate (potentially fatal) health risk. In addition, this case in particular is quite rare; thus, if nothing else, there is no other way to have standardized patient training for these cases in a reproducible and safe manner, and this sort of project has a future.

For those interested, this particular lab's research focus with this project is to determine just how much the "virtual environment"/"virtual person" aspect of the system would affect the impact that such interactions would have on those training with it. You'd be surprised at how much people subconsciously treat virtual people like real people... especially as long as the speech recognition is working properly. Do we exhibit the same racial biases toward virtual people as we do toward real people? Yes. (Other publications are also linked on this page.

You can acquire an allergy via exposure. A good example is powdered latex gloves. The powder, usually corn starch, picks up small amounts of latex protein and rubs it into the pores of your skin. The powder can also get into the air and carry latex into the lungs. As exposure continues, the risk of having a problem rises. This is a large issue for health care workers, and many of them are switching to non-powdered vinyl gloves. ANYONE can get a reaction if they get enough exposure, but it may take 20 years for some people to see an effect. Other people do have a predisposition to develop food or other allergies, there is more information available here.

Try here

>And it doesn't have parasites in it either.

Even the "cleanest" tap water can sometimes harbor nasty things:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss189
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Cryptosporidium_outbreak

Hello, I am John Titor Jr. I come in peace with the Apple iPod Yocto, sold standard with a telepathic control knob and a holographic projector.

And here are the specs on my shiny new orb: (nobody uses box-shaped hardware anymore)
Personal Analogue Assistant (all digital is so 30's, we today use the brains of mutated test subjects from WWIII)
Calc.exe 17.5012 (don't worry, it's TI-83 compatible and made by TI's developers, MS bought Texas Instruments 40 years ago when the Z80 stopped being produced)
Alarm Clock
Heart Rate Monitor
Toothbrush
Nail Clippers
Stool Analyzer
Pepper Spray
Insulin and Glucose Monitor (for the diabetics)
Medicine Dispenser
Scissors
25 piece Knife Set
Time Machine (I believe this was first included with Mac OS X Leopard, but this version also allows physical time travel)
Human Teleportation Device (never have another traffic jam)
Holographic Interweb 4.0 Browser with Microsoft-Apple-Nintendo-Sony-Google(R) Übersearch
Microsoft-Apple-Nintendo-Sony-Google(R) Singularity ENT (Extremely New Technology, still BSODs, or more like Blue Coma of Death, do not use when driving)
Microsoft-Apple-Nintendo-Sony-Google(R) Virtual OmniBoy 65536 (65536-bit tech with 800 Giganeuron bio-brain and dedicated 512 YB holographic storage, pretty puny, but OK for a pocket device; allows up to 1 trillion players from anywhere in the galaxy to play at once)
Virtual Galaxy of Warcraft, Mobile Edition (it has other 3DVR games too, but who needs 'em)
Virtual Neo-Vegas Ultimate (GoW is great, but wow, you should see the hookers and blackjack in this game)
Still no kitchen sink, but it does come with a nanobot-powered self-sterilizing vacuum for removing fluids like spit or throw up, which is split into component chemicals to power a biomass generator and feed the wetware, and a water spigot that works by removing moisture from the air at a maximum of 3 gallons/minute (close enough, though, eh?).

Oh yeah, I wrote this message to send a warning, not to brag about my awesome 1337^1337 iStuff. Though their software be über-slick, fear Microsoft-Apple-Nintendo-Sony-Google(R). The CEO is a cybernetically-enhanced clone of Bill Gates, and the entire board is made up of B.A.L.L.M.E.R. robots, their meetings littered with cries of "Developers" and throwings of chairs. Their corporate motto is "A thousand nations of the Software Empire descend upon you!" Some fear that they are beginning to sell crushed human remains as "environmentally friendly" food products.

Alas, my captcha, verily, I kid thee not and so swear upon my life and the lives of all the Galaxy's Earthsent children, is "despair." How apropos.

Also, you mention "tons of pollutants"? Over what time frame?

From the article:

Last year, the Capitol Power Plant burned 17,108 tons of coal.

If the coal:sulfur ratio by weight is 1:17,108, it will release exactly one ton of sulfur. This will be as sulfur dioxide (SO2), which weighs 64.07 g/mol, half of which is from sulfur (32.065 g/mol). In other words, one ton of sulfur becomes two tons of sulfur dioxide.

From what I could find (ufl.edu), coal usually contains more than 1 percent of sulfur by weight.

That means we're looking at a minimum of 171 tons of sulfur last year, and 342 tons of sulfur dioxide. That definitely qualifies as "tons of pollutants".

the non-lethal microwave "pain" guns developed by the military run at approx 100,000 watts.

Non-lethal? So if you're tied up or chained in front of one and can't get away while it's turned on you won't die?

The above noted pain gun still, at more than 10,000 times the energy, does not cause DNA damage, it's still only exciting water molocules to create basic heat and pain sensation in nerves responding to it.

And boiling water does not damage DNA? Then why do experts say to place baby bottles in boiling water before feeding babies? What this does is sterilize the bottles thus it damages all the DNA. A webpage from UF says "Microwave oven can sterilize sponges, scrub pads". It says "The results were unambiguous: Two minutes of microwaving on full power mode killed or inactivated more than 99 percent of all the living pathogens in the sponges and pads, although the Bacillus cereus spores required four minutes for total inactivation."

You don't think the DNA is being damaged?

Falcon

Last year I attended a presentation by Dr. Middelkoop. He showed us a demo on distributed computing using PS3s. http://www.ise.ufl.edu/middelkoop/ His work was focused on optimization.

It's not about 'not having enough water.' California is not like the midwest, or Texas, where water is removed from the ground; in California, the reservoirs are replenished every year with water from the mountains, and when that goes onto fields, it actually replenishes the water table.

I suggest you examine you reservoirs before you make that statement. Most of the ones in California are running around 60% full and dropping. As to your second point about replenishing the water table, it doesn't. Most irrigation techniques involve spraying the crops as opposed to root irrigation. Doing so involves approximately 8% evaporation. Following that, farms target irrigation volumes and timing to maximize penetration at the root level and minimize any further penetration. In short, they explicitly try not to replenish the water table.(Nebraska's water management recommendation - they're similar for every farming application with minor variations for indigenous soils & climate.)

The issue right now is that a lot of water from the reservoirs is being dumped into the ocean instead of onto fields in an effort to protect the delta smelt.

[sigh] What exactly will happen to the delta if the smelt die off? The general hint is that nothing lives in a vacuum. The smelt are relatively insensitive to salination changes. However the vast majority of the life in a delta are not. If you overdrain the open water sources - lakes, streams, etc - the delta is going to turn into a salt swamp. I'm absolutely certain that you'll appreciate living in the area then because areas undergoing swampification smell so nice. Oh, don't forget to add in the malaria issue due to the large pockets of standing water.

but either way you're not going to get a dust bowl in Central California.

The people of Owen's Lake would disagree with you.

Nor does it have anything to do with forest fires.

That you would state this indicates you have no understanding of the roles the natural aquifer plays in underbrush management.

In short, just because the water is there and free flowing, it doesn't mean that it's not already serving a purpose.

Somehow, I think you have completely missed the point. The data used for these types of broad generalizations is not specific to an area, it is aggregated. Your strawman argument isn't very interesting -- do you actually believe that preferring Firefox means you are probably a criminal? The shark attack VS ice cream example is not a premise of the argument.

It's obviously not true for arbitrary geographic areas. And it's obviously not true for long term time frames - sharks attacks have gone down since 2000, I doubt world wide ice cream sales have.

The data does not suggest reported shark attacks have significantly gone down since 2000.

Reported shark attacks have been in an up trend since the 1980s.

And actually, Ice Cream sales have been going down a bit, since 2000, the product has been losing some some market share to other frozen desert items. And bad years.

I expect both reported shark attacks and ice cream sales have bad years, where they may randomly deviate from the trend. Not all correlations are the strongest type possible.

Somehow, I think you have completely missed the point. The data used for these types of broad generalizations is not specific to an area, it is aggregated. Your strawman argument isn't very interesting -- do you actually believe that preferring Firefox means you are probably a criminal? The shark attack VS ice cream example is not a premise of the argument.

It's obviously not true for arbitrary geographic areas. And it's obviously not true for long term time frames - sharks attacks have gone down since 2000, I doubt world wide ice cream sales have.

The data does not suggest reported shark attacks have significantly gone down since 2000.

Reported shark attacks have been in an up trend since the 1980s.

And actually, Ice Cream sales have been going down a bit, since 2000, the product has been losing some some market share to other frozen desert items. And bad years.

I expect both reported shark attacks and ice cream sales have bad years, where they may randomly deviate from the trend. Not all correlations are the strongest type possible.

Looks like; cood head crash photos: http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html

If you buy an IBM hard disk, it'll even do that for you!

You wont get this though. Because we live in a world that demands "social justice" aka: forcing the smartest to be clumped in with the dumbest and the laziest.

Mr. 'antirelic', there's a call for you on line 1 from a fellow name of Sir Francis Galton. He'd like to discuss his exciting new theory with you -- he calls it "Eugenics". I'm sure you'll be interested.

If people would focus on buying locally produced veggies and meat, it would cut a huge chunk of transportation cost (and waste) out of the system.

If transportation were actually wasteful, economics would drive it out of the system. Here's an example: you can get about 2500 pounds (1.25 tons) of oranges out of an acre of orange grove Cite. Rail transports about 400 ton-miles per gallon, so it takes a little more than 3 gallons of fuel to move an acre's orange harvest from Jacksonville, FL to New York City. Actually, since both of those cities are coastal, you could load the oranges into a shipping container, put them on a ship that will move 800 ton-miles per gallon, and move the whole acre to NYC for under $4 of oil.

The world is not black and white.

No, it isn't, but you sure would like it to be. Organic grains tend to contain a higher amount of aflatoxin than conventionally grown grain, and aflatoxins are not the most healthy of things. I don't know whether the aflatoxin of the organic grains are worse than the pesticide in the conventionally grown grains, but then, I doubt anyone really does.

In 1995 worldwide pesticide sales were around 30 billion. Who knows what they are today?

AFAICT, in 2000 and 2001, it was about 30 billion USD. Of course, the weight used is probably much less then it was in 1995, as the new pesticides tends to be more efficient, so less is needed (of course, that also makes them more poisonous).

Why do you insist on posting your own fantasies as if they had anything to do with the truth?

Have you told Penn State College of Agricultures Diary and Animal Science you know more than they do yet?

The UMass link you provide says nothing about greenhouses gases. The closest it comes to the word "gas" is "gasketing". And though the other link does us "gas" and "carbon dioxide" it says nothing about whether greenhouse gases, which is not used.

You have provided no links to evidence to support your position but I have, including the Penn State link above which you obviously did not read or you're just acting like a troll. Just in case you're not trolling here are some more links:

• What is the Greenhouse Effect?
• Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change
• Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Everglades: The Role of Hydrologic Conditions

Now unless you provide links to support your position I can only conclude you are trolling. And the 2 links you did provide did not do so.

Falcon

CompuServe 1978. Q-Link 1985. http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/1980s.shtml

Not really. Last time I checked, client code using a class could modify local fields of all its instances, thus violating the tenet of encapsulation. You also have to explicitly pass "self" by hand each time.

See Section 10 of this reference, for instance.

> That was the option, re-invent & reboot or buh-bye.

Precisely. Even if a company would be insane enough to finance another conventional Trek film after Nemesis, only a very few ultra-hard-core fans in rubber forehead appliances and mouldering cosplay regalia would have gone to see it.

They could have just rebooted without explanation, as was done with Casino Royale. This would actually have simplified the plot and freed up 20 minutes or so for other things. The time travel angle was a nod towards die-hard fans, which appears to have been unappreciated.

So, fine, there's going to be a subgroup of intense trekkies who are very unhappy with the reboot, who would, perhaps, rather there be no more Star Trek unless it included Shatner or Stewart (depending on which camp you're in). I'm ok with that. I don't think Berman-era hardcore fans have the numbers to make or break a nationally released film, and their ire may (as implied in the Onion skit) actually have an opposite effect. It's all good. I'll be seeing the film again this week.

> I'm a fiscal conservative, it's a pity we don't have a political party anymore

We do, but you have to put up with white-hot hate from both established parties.

Sorry, there are UF, FSU, FAU, and FIU, as well as universities of Central, North, West, and South Florida. But no FU. GP is safe wrt Floridian institutions.

Please play again.

Modern folks think they are required to have air conditioning

Tallahassee resident and former South Florida resident here. Sure, A/C isn't required. Neither is an internet connection. Neither is electricity, if you want to debate the meaning of "required". But all of those are necessary for modern life. Summers in Florida without A/C consist primarily of sitting on a porch, fanning yourself and drinking iced tea. It makes for a nice "Andy Griffith" tableau, but for those of us not benefiting from coastal breezes (like Jacksonville), we'd rather get some work done.

As far as older folk and kids "keeling over", heat strokes do still happen, and they happened more frequently before air conditioning became commonplace. Sure, most of them are northern transplants who don't know you can suffer from dehydration without feeling thirsty.

All that being said, I think you're 100% correct about home design and landscaping. The amount of land here that has had its native live oaks bulldozed to make way for a subdivision with puny little trees in their front yards is mind boggling. I'd love to see more houses look like this, or at least landscaped according to this.

Modern folks think they are required to have air conditioning

Tallahassee resident and former South Florida resident here. Sure, A/C isn't required. Neither is an internet connection. Neither is electricity, if you want to debate the meaning of "required". But all of those are necessary for modern life. Summers in Florida without A/C consist primarily of sitting on a porch, fanning yourself and drinking iced tea. It makes for a nice "Andy Griffith" tableau, but for those of us not benefiting from coastal breezes (like Jacksonville), we'd rather get some work done.

As far as older folk and kids "keeling over", heat strokes do still happen, and they happened more frequently before air conditioning became commonplace. Sure, most of them are northern transplants who don't know you can suffer from dehydration without feeling thirsty.

All that being said, I think you're 100% correct about home design and landscaping. The amount of land here that has had its native live oaks bulldozed to make way for a subdivision with puny little trees in their front yards is mind boggling. I'd love to see more houses look like this, or at least landscaped according to this.

Raise more dragonflies. Dragonflies eat mosquitoes.

Of course, if we would drain all the pools at foreclosed homes, that would have a significant impact as well.

Granted, if you're in the south where there are thousands of acres of swamp land, you might have a problem breeding enough dragonflies to make a dent in the mosquito population.

Then again, bats are wonderful eaters of mosquitoes. For those who have the room, bat boxes will provide an invitation for bats to do their work. As most bats don't come out until sundown, there will be no interference with your enjoyment of your yard during the day while at night, you can watch and cheer them on as they devour those annoying mosquitoes.

There are no Crocodiles in Florida.

Wrong.

There's a more credible explanation.

I dont know who modded you funny, because it's not in the least.

However, it is very interesting that reversible programs are gaining traction.. Let us hope that reversible CPU's are also coming soon.

Side note for those who do not understand: The heat in our CPU's has been equated to the entropy in the die itself. Numbers are continually thrown away and recalculated then thrown away. These numbers, represented as information, do not just "go away", as they represent quanta of heat (work, if you will). With enough work emitted as entropy, we have heat emanated from the core. A reversible CPU could literally step back through the equation and recover the energy it used in processing with no heat loss.

Here's a good link to get you started.

Cutting edge, yes. But not warp drive.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/revcomp/

If anyone is wondering about the type of surgery being performed, here is a link describing it: http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/candidate/candidate-whatisdbs.htm

With Deep Brain Stimulation, the patient is often awake for as much of the surgery as possible. The surgeries usually can be done in a morning or an afternoon.

Here is a video of a DBS surgery: http://www.or-live.com/vanderbilt/2319/

The First Poem Written for Computers

FTFL:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/questions/Biology.html#birth

How about potatoes?

• uip (tcp/ip stack)
• a modified version of mmc from Procyon AVRlib
• Tiny FatFS
• A modified enc28j60 driver from Procyon AVRlib

If people could get their blood infused (at least temporarily) with alligator blood it may be also used during surgery on humans to decrease the chance of infection and lessen the need for blood flow. Then, if the infusion could be permanent...

Heh. My first job involving computers was being a tape monkey. Literally, my eight hour shift, I would watch a 3270 terminal for tape mount requests and mount the tapes requested. When I wasn't doing that, I was reshelving tapes, pulling new scratch tapes and cleaning the drives, which looked like this. Later I advanced to other computer operator duties and finally graduated to system administration, but hanging tapes was part of my job description for some years.

Eh, I don't know who the hell modded this interesting, but these guys (who look a lot more trustworthy than a random Slashdot post) would certainly disagree with it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bug#Folklore
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN694

Pseudoephedrine is a pain in the ass to get now in most states, but here in Oregon, they've made it completely illegal without a prescription. Unfortunately, phenylephrine is no more effective than placebo when ingested orally. Apparently it's effective in nasal sprays, but when ingested it doesn't get absorbed into the bloodstream at all.

Every technology has it's fanboys. My guess is that DrDugan somehow makes his money in nuclear power.

he might even be this dr. Dugan:

http://www.nre.ufl.edu/department/perspages/dugan.php

but I'm sure that if he is then he would have put his bias on the line before getting his 'pro nuclear' message out there just so we would know who we are dealing with here.

Basically, a major organ transplant (such as heart or liver) goes through 5 stages (6 if you count the selection of the donor):

1. Something happens to the donor which results in them being chosen as an organ donor candidate. Ideally, the person who is to be the donor will be relatively young (less than 35 or so), in great health, who has a piano fall on their head, hard enough to basically destroy all higher brain function, but not hard enough to destroy autonomic brain function. In other words, their mind is gone, but their body could survive indefinitely on life support. For example, before all the hoopla, Terry Schiavo would have been a strong candidate for organ transplantation.
2. The organ is removed from the donor.
3. The organ is transported to the recipient.
4. The organ is placed into the recipient.
5. The recipient goes on immunosuppressants for life.

The body is kept warm prior to the removal. This keeps as much oxygen as possible flowing to the body parts. To use a swimming analogy, the organ is getting ready to hold its breath.

Once the organ is removed, it is no longer receiving oxygen. It is now "holding its breath". Some organs can do so for a very long time. Others can only do so for a very short time. Now, go read up on drowning. If you're going to find yourself drowning, and do not wish to die, try to do it in the coldest water possible. You have a chance of being revived, without brain damage, even an hour later. Yes, documented cases do exist of this. See http://www.hhp.ufl.edu/faculty/pbird/keepingfit/ARTICLE/drowningsurvival.HTM for some examples.

Transporting an organ on ice does the same thing. It slows the organ's metabolism down to improve survivability while out of the body.

Right until that moment of removal, though, you want the donor body doing as much as possible to keep that organ alive. You want it warm and fresh, fully oxygenated. Macabre, yes, but very true.

The Internet2 project found that the costs and complexities of implementing quality of service guarantees exceeded the benefits. It was more practical to add sufficient bandwidth than it was to prioritize packets. They also predicted - and other research supports - that QoS would encourage ISPs to deliberately downgrade service in order to charge more.