Lysine is an amino acid that is fairly common in the wild so yes that part of the movie was stupid. However, there are compounds that are otherwise only found in a lab, most synthetic amino acids for example. These need to be supplied in a lab setting for the organism to survive as they are not found in food sources outside of a lab setting. Several of those handicaps together should be more than enough to make sure that anything we make in the lab isn't going to be doing any time elsewhere that it simply shouldn't be.
Wouldn't some blackhat fire maker simply not do that? At least right now there is a purpose, whether to make a molatov cocktail (which is, by its nature, controlled) or have a camp fire. But out of all the things I think we can rely upon, I think the fundamental ability of humans to be evil and idiotic should caution us against popularizing such fire making.
all technology has a risk of being missued but if we didn't develop any of that tech because of that fear, then we'd never have developed fire out of fear that it could be used to burn down homes. The haber process which keeps 2 billion people fed and alive today was developed to produce nitrogen compounds used to make munitions to kill people. NO tech in of its self is evil, it is how it is used which is evil.
just as much as any other technology with great power. nitroglycerin can blow things up but it can also treat heart problems, nuclear energy can vaporize whole cities or it can kill cancer and produce clean power, synthetic biology can kill millions through germ warfare or it can cure disease, wean the US off oil, start us on a good path toward synthetic nanotechnology and many other things. The thing to remember is that anything can be used for good and as a weapon, the choice is ours. The technology in of its self is not evil, it is how you use it.
or produce the needed vitamins for the human body. it's been tried with limited success... the probelm seems to be getting the bacteria to take hold in the gut rather than just expelled from the body. the field is called probiotics but requires some engineering so it's a bit of both fields. imagine making enough vitamin D not to ever have rickets or vitamin C to prevent scurvy or even destroying toxins like Melamine. Which by the way is why cows can do ok with melamine in their diet, their gut bacteria breakdown melamine and produce useful nitrogen containing molecules using it as a nitrogen source.
My only concern is that we might create some sort of blight in the lab that gets out.
we can also delete/disable genes required for growth outside the lab. As an example, knocking out multiple genes involved in synthesizing nutrients that are not common outside of a lab setting. stack several of these together and the chance the bacteria has of adapting quickly is roughly zero. synthetic biology also allows us to incorporate unnatural amino acids that if not present in the medium, cause protein synthesis to halt at the point missing the correct amino acid. without the amino acid, only smaller snippets of amino acids form rather than the protein and if it is important to the cell, it's going to die.
That is an excellent post on epigenetics. Incidentally it should be noted that methylation changes gene expression through altering the interaction between the molecular machinery responsible for synthesizing proteins and DNA in which cytosine residues are methylated. Histone proteins can be alterest as well to alter the tightness in which they are bound to DNA which also affects gene expression.
I have no respect for the "ignorance and forfeiture of responsibility is a perfectly acceptable defence" crowd. It took me *one* google search to find *pages* of information on where components are sourced. Why can't you do the same?
antibiotics were heavily in use in the west while the east had to develop alternate methods of attacking bacteria. now that antibiotic resistance is becomming a major problem in the west, bacteriophages may be used more often on *surface ailments*. THe reason being that the body's immune system attacks the phages when used internally.
They wouldn't be treating people so bad if it didn't benefit them financially... If they find that foreigners stop buying their products out of protest things will change... Don't like how China treats its workers? Don't buy their stuff. Do some research about where your stuff comes from and act accordingly.
indeed. although the fed reserve aren't the only part of the fed or its hybrids that are in part responsible. The CPA and its revisions for example were quite likely to have had a major distortive force on the market. As well as the perceived "negation of risk" that happened with Fannie and Freddie having their risk socialized and profits privatized.
That wouldn't be solved by restricting the distribution by Ip address. It's fantastically easy to go through any of numerous proxies available on the internet.
That's the kind of attitude that they exploit in order to get away with this kind of behavior. No one cares enough to smack them around for it and it shows all across the government.
you do make some valid points. However, keep a few things in mind: 1) those patent threats were leveraged against an OS family making up approximately one percent [give or take] of desktop market share. Mac OS O.T.O.H. makes up roughly 10% and yet MS chose to throw FUD at Linux. 2).net is not the only patent trap that could exist which is why I didn't limit the discussion merely to.net. 3) the development of technologies like the.net implementation depend on Microsoft having no reason to sue over patents that cover these technologies and frankly the idea of trusting Microsoft not to in the future sue over its IP is "naive."
Microsoft has a history of using patents to protect its desktop market share. They attempted to scare people out of using open source software because it supposedly violated 235 of their patents. Therefore, I believe it is prudent that the open source community remain sceptical of Microsoft as well as implimentations of any of its technology including the.net platform.
A few points of contention: 1) methane is not an ideal gas at the average temperature of Titan. 2) your velocity is root mean square not the velocity of all methane molecules in the atmosphere. The velocity of gas molecules is that of a bell curve not a concrete quantized single quantity. The fact is that although small by comparison, there's going to be a few methane molecules that have the velocity required to escape Titan's gravity no matter what the temperature. Granted the number of methane molecules capable of escaping increases dramatically with temperature... there should be enough that can escape to make millions or billions of years a fair approximation as to the average length of time a methane molecule stays bound in Titan's gravity well. THis is of course neglecting ionization of methane molecules caused by external radiation sources which reduce the lifetime of methane molecules captured.
I don't blame all parents, I blame the ones who voted for and continue to support this "small minority" that keeps attempting to shove its values down everyone else's throat. It's to the point where those parents are no longer bearing any responsibility for the raising of their children and attempt to shift responsibility to others; politicians take advantage of this. "See look at me I'm protecting the childrrrren..." and everyone else has to deal with that nonsense.
It isn't the government's job to raise your kids for you, nor is it their job to babysit them later in life. Furthermore, it would be grossly inaccurate to say that higher exposure to violent games leads to or somehow causes violent behavior. The government needs to go back to preventing one individual from harming another individual rather than being the morality/hand-holding police.
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Lysine is an amino acid that is fairly common in the wild so yes that part of the movie was stupid. However, there are compounds that are otherwise only found in a lab, most synthetic amino acids for example. These need to be supplied in a lab setting for the organism to survive as they are not found in food sources outside of a lab setting. Several of those handicaps together should be more than enough to make sure that anything we make in the lab isn't going to be doing any time elsewhere that it simply shouldn't be.
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all technology has a risk of being missued but if we didn't develop any of that tech because of that fear, then we'd never have developed fire out of fear that it could be used to burn down homes. The haber process which keeps 2 billion people fed and alive today was developed to produce nitrogen compounds used to make munitions to kill people. NO tech in of its self is evil, it is how it is used which is evil.
just as much as any other technology with great power. nitroglycerin can blow things up but it can also treat heart problems, nuclear energy can vaporize whole cities or it can kill cancer and produce clean power, synthetic biology can kill millions through germ warfare or it can cure disease, wean the US off oil, start us on a good path toward synthetic nanotechnology and many other things. The thing to remember is that anything can be used for good and as a weapon, the choice is ours. The technology in of its self is not evil, it is how you use it.
or produce the needed vitamins for the human body. it's been tried with limited success... the probelm seems to be getting the bacteria to take hold in the gut rather than just expelled from the body. the field is called probiotics but requires some engineering so it's a bit of both fields. imagine making enough vitamin D not to ever have rickets or vitamin C to prevent scurvy or even destroying toxins like Melamine. Which by the way is why cows can do ok with melamine in their diet, their gut bacteria breakdown melamine and produce useful nitrogen containing molecules using it as a nitrogen source.
we can also delete/disable genes required for growth outside the lab. As an example, knocking out multiple genes involved in synthesizing nutrients that are not common outside of a lab setting. stack several of these together and the chance the bacteria has of adapting quickly is roughly zero. synthetic biology also allows us to incorporate unnatural amino acids that if not present in the medium, cause protein synthesis to halt at the point missing the correct amino acid. without the amino acid, only smaller snippets of amino acids form rather than the protein and if it is important to the cell, it's going to die.
That is an excellent post on epigenetics. Incidentally it should be noted that methylation changes gene expression through altering the interaction between the molecular machinery responsible for synthesizing proteins and DNA in which cytosine residues are methylated. Histone proteins can be alterest as well to alter the tightness in which they are bound to DNA which also affects gene expression.
I have no respect for the "ignorance and forfeiture of responsibility is a perfectly acceptable defence" crowd. It took me *one* google search to find *pages* of information on where components are sourced. Why can't you do the same?
antibiotics were heavily in use in the west while the east had to develop alternate methods of attacking bacteria. now that antibiotic resistance is becomming a major problem in the west, bacteriophages may be used more often on *surface ailments*. THe reason being that the body's immune system attacks the phages when used internally.
They wouldn't be treating people so bad if it didn't benefit them financially... If they find that foreigners stop buying their products out of protest things will change... Don't like how China treats its workers? Don't buy their stuff. Do some research about where your stuff comes from and act accordingly.
indeed. although the fed reserve aren't the only part of the fed or its hybrids that are in part responsible. The CPA and its revisions for example were quite likely to have had a major distortive force on the market. As well as the perceived "negation of risk" that happened with Fannie and Freddie having their risk socialized and profits privatized.
that's why I said "as it should" as it is irrelevant what OS family you're running as long as it has a flash port.
That wouldn't be solved by restricting the distribution by Ip address. It's fantastically easy to go through any of numerous proxies available on the internet.
well there wouldn't even be a startrek TNG without TOS and its "cheesy" effects.
I find it hard to believe that they don't have control over their own copyrights.
That's why proxies were invented, they don't know the difference...
Indeed, it works just fine on LInux [as it should] It's nice to be able to *legally* watch TOS online and brainwash others in the way of Trek.
That's the kind of attitude that they exploit in order to get away with this kind of behavior. No one cares enough to smack them around for it and it shows all across the government.
you do make some valid points. However, keep a few things in mind: 1) those patent threats were leveraged against an OS family making up approximately one percent [give or take] of desktop market share. Mac OS O.T.O.H. makes up roughly 10% and yet MS chose to throw FUD at Linux. 2) .net is not the only patent trap that could exist which is why I didn't limit the discussion merely to .net. 3) the development of technologies like the .net implementation depend on Microsoft having no reason to sue over patents that cover these technologies and frankly the idea of trusting Microsoft not to in the future sue over its IP is "naive."
Microsoft has a history of using patents to protect its desktop market share. They attempted to scare people out of using open source software because it supposedly violated 235 of their patents. Therefore, I believe it is prudent that the open source community remain sceptical of Microsoft as well as implimentations of any of its technology including the .net platform.
immortalized cells aren't just for cancer and vampires, your stem cells are also effectively immortal as well.
A few points of contention:
1) methane is not an ideal gas at the average temperature of Titan.
2) your velocity is root mean square not the velocity of all methane molecules in the atmosphere. The velocity of gas molecules is that of a bell curve not a concrete quantized single quantity. The fact is that although small by comparison, there's going to be a few methane molecules that have the velocity required to escape Titan's gravity no matter what the temperature. Granted the number of methane molecules capable of escaping increases dramatically with temperature... there should be enough that can escape to make millions or billions of years a fair approximation as to the average length of time a methane molecule stays bound in Titan's gravity well. THis is of course neglecting ionization of methane molecules caused by external radiation sources which reduce the lifetime of methane molecules captured.
here:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5429881813.html
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
I don't blame all parents, I blame the ones who voted for and continue to support this "small minority" that keeps attempting to shove its values down everyone else's throat. It's to the point where those parents are no longer bearing any responsibility for the raising of their children and attempt to shift responsibility to others; politicians take advantage of this. "See look at me I'm protecting the childrrrren..." and everyone else has to deal with that nonsense.
It isn't the government's job to raise your kids for you, nor is it their job to babysit them later in life. Furthermore, it would be grossly inaccurate to say that higher exposure to violent games leads to or somehow causes violent behavior.
The government needs to go back to preventing one individual from harming another individual rather than being the morality/hand-holding police.