I donate what I can, I also participate in biological research, part of which is finding ways to feed the world but that isn't the point. yes it is unfortunate that this drug in particular won't end up giving merck as much cash as they would have otherwise but frankly I don't feel sorry for them. Really I don't, I think drug companies should get some compensation for the money they put into research put it just sickens me when people end up dying to that end. IT DISGUISTS ME that the knowledge gained isn't being used to help people. I just can not fathom the attitude of people who would rather make a buck than help another human being.
what happened was this: merck had the AIDS drug and Brazil tried to negotiate it at what they could afford, merck declined, Brazil then told merck to screw themselves and got the drug anyway. it isn't so much an attack on merck's ability to make money off its own research as it is the idiot practice of denying DYING people medical treatment for the sake of said profit. moral of story: better to negotiate then to be bypassed.
what does congress expect universities to do short of outright CENSORING school computers? What they don't realize is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to stop students from using other computers that they have no way of controlling. Even if they did CENSOR the students online what can they do to stop encrypted/TOR/off network access? What about the tried and true downloaders who share wifi hot spots at cyber cafes etc. utterly hopeless for them me thinks.
I think the reason alot of slashdotters hate the RIAA, insist that what they sell is garbage or whatever and download the music anyway is: 1) most slashdotters are very tech-smart in other words because they can 2) it is easier for people to steal from an organization they hate because the RIAA actually goes after people who are suspected of stealing music although the sheer number of people who have downloaded music illegally makes the RIAA's job basically a living hell. 3) the RIAA goes about trying to stop pirating in the worst possible way- that is with shoddy evidence and bad if not illegal legal tactics ie. we won't take you to trial if you give us something... For those reasons I know that the only way all this nonsense is going to end is if the reason to pirate RIAA controlled music dries up completely. It is inevitable that a small but significant number of people will download music illegally regardless of any security or legal measures; what needs to happen is people who want free music go to indie bands or something instead of stealing mainstream music. However, this as you noted is unlikely as much of the music worth listening to is of the RIAA variety and thus illegal to download without proper compensation. Inevitably the music industry and everyone that benefits from the work done there will need to reach a stable equilibrium or become extinct. Either people adapt to new ways that give them access to their favorite music and yet help the artists or the entire industry suffers/dies as a result.
it is correct that a planet needs a conductive liquid rotating core to produce a magnetic field and mercury's density indicates that the core is composed of a large portion of iron and some sulfur
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005AGUSM.P23A..01S
mercury has a 3:2 resonance orbit:rotation which could very well explain a very slow fluid core rotation and thus the weak field since eventually the core will sync with the rotation of the outside of the planet.
it is quite odd that mercury has a liquid metal core but a very weak magnetic field- planetary magnetic fields form when currents flow through a liquid core- the rotating core sustains the field as on earth, the sun and jupiter but mercury's is very weak- apparently it isn't rotating much
It's really far past the time for the RIAA to start paying for all their mistakes.
no, it is time the companies that support the RIAA pay for what they're doing. the quickest way to do that is to outright ignore their garbage- even refusing to pirate their garbage [free publicity right?] stop indirectly supporting these idiots- listen to alternatives!
erithritol- look it up. secondly, you seem not to be aware that sucrose is metabolised into glucose and frucfose in the body. what people are going to need to learn is that decreasing CALORIE intake and getting out of the house once in a while will help them lose weight. It is really sad that society doesn't understand that the problem is simple, more in than out = gain weight, more out than in= lose weight- it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
Merely by suggesting the idea as something plausible, you will find someone who will find a way to do it
yes and this time it is the censoring that shall fail. it is as you pointed out inevitable that people will find a way around things if they really try.
many Americans would be outraged to learn that scripture is being taught in Australian Public Schools
not as many as you would think unfortunately... there's a place called kansas and dover that tried to put religion in schools and a presigent called bush who thinks it was a fantastic idea...
every time you try to censor something in today's tech world you end up attracting more attention than if you had left it alone. besides, how can they possibly enforce this? they cant block the site at home or any cyber cafe or anywhere but the school's computers.
Sure, it is far better but why is it so damn hard to follow standards?
you're new here arn't you? Microsoft doesn't compete, they simply attempt to force people to use it. to accomplish that, during the browser wars microsoft and netscape developed their own flavor of standards and each tried to get the W3C to adopt them.. javascript for netscape and CSS for microsoft. because netscape wasn't immediately available like IE was, few people bothered to switch to anything else since it did exactly what they wanted... sometimes, and no more. this in effect ended any real "innovation" by microsoft and no real need to follow the W3C since everyone was using IE anyway. the only way the standards will be followed is if other browsers like firefox put a little fear into microsoft
Eventually, everyone will want steak, and they'll wonder why no one can afford dinner. It is no different with State-forced health care,
I wasn't aware adequate medical care was "steak." but seriously, I don't quite follow your logic here, how do you suppose that kicking out any controls it is somehow going to fix this? where you not on Earth when california had that electricity crisis caused by wait for it... deregulation? what needs to be done is find a way to lessen the cost of healthcare without the utter hell that are HMOs. when it stops costing nearly a billion dollars to bring the next "miracle" drug to market then we might see this get better, but the solution isn't to turn a blind eye to these things- there needs to be some regulation of things at the least to prevent the proliferation of monopolies...
cells use what energy is available to them, they also have backup systems of sorts that prevent non-essential reactions from killing the cell [metabolic feedback] too much or too little of a substrate affects reactions like this: suppose a brain cell runs low on ATP [energy currancy] it shuts down anything but what it needs to live, in this case fewer electrical impulses which also means brain shutdown as a whole. shutting down brain function is preferrable to "death" from a cell's point of view. These cells don't just die instantaneously, they live on and switch to using anaerobic pathways that make energy without air, these can be distrupted by addition to oxygen, in fact cell processes grind to a halt when metabolic processes need to change. during that time RNA is transcribed for the needed enzymes and protein synthesis takes precedant. In this case, cooling the body down to lower oxygen requirements and introducing oxygen slowly might allow the cells to revert to near-normal function. In the past a patient was known to have been submerged underwater without air in very cold temperatures and have their heart/brain revived after 4 hours.
If they want to improve marks, they should be working harder to teach the students rather than discouraging it. Running away from the problem will not solve anything.
true, but to them it is irrelevant. The GPA system has not, can not and will not encourage otherwise intelligent people to take math classes or any hard class for that matter. But I don't want some moron taking classes for grades working in any significant field, I want someone working in the field because they want to. Now this doesn't mean that people can't take a class and find they are actually quite good at it and end up going that route. What needs to happen is the school system gets changed from the mentality that learning for the sake of grades to learning for the sake of learning. Otherwise this planet and anyone dependant on these people are screwed.
HIV mutates very quickly, it is able to survive in the body because it changes so often which also means that if this treatment works as well as they say and gets used alot, the virus will likely adapt to survive against it. eventually we will have the same problem with this treatment as we do with antibiotics.
apes, especially monkeys, are very genetically related to humans, because of this it is not surprising to find that they have what we usually think are human behaviors. Gorillas for instance, can be taught to understand sign language, monkeys are known to use tools, form tightly knit groups and even make primitive weapons for killing prey. [spears] In fact, monkeys are so very much like we humans that recently it was debated as to whether to grant them human-like rights.
this meteor shower is mostly the result of the comet Thatcher crossing very close to Earth's orbit. the comet approaches the sun shedding gas and dust which stays in orbit around the sun and once in a while Earth crosses through it. anything larger than a grain of sand or so can be visible and as has been said before, some can get very large. In fact, a meteor was found by my grandfather not long ago in a river bed- it was about 6 inches long and was quite heavy. these fragments from this comet are probably less dense than this as most objects in the asteroid belt much similar to comets are of the stony variety [type S] which are usually more porous, lighter and made mainly of rock.
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I donate what I can, I also participate in biological research, part of which is finding ways to feed the world but that isn't the point. yes it is unfortunate that this drug in particular won't end up giving merck as much cash as they would have otherwise but frankly I don't feel sorry for them. Really I don't, I think drug companies should get some compensation for the money they put into research put it just sickens me when people end up dying to that end. IT DISGUISTS ME that the knowledge gained isn't being used to help people. I just can not fathom the attitude of people who would rather make a buck than help another human being.
what happened was this: merck had the AIDS drug and Brazil tried to negotiate it at what they could afford, merck declined, Brazil then told merck to screw themselves and got the drug anyway. it isn't so much an attack on merck's ability to make money off its own research as it is the idiot practice of denying DYING people medical treatment for the sake of said profit. moral of story: better to negotiate then to be bypassed.
what does congress expect universities to do short of outright CENSORING school computers? What they don't realize is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to stop students from using other computers that they have no way of controlling. Even if they did CENSOR the students online what can they do to stop encrypted/TOR/off network access? What about the tried and true downloaders who share wifi hot spots at cyber cafes etc. utterly hopeless for them me thinks.
I think the reason alot of slashdotters hate the RIAA, insist that what they sell is garbage or whatever and download the music anyway is: 1) most slashdotters are very tech-smart in other words because they can 2) it is easier for people to steal from an organization they hate because the RIAA actually goes after people who are suspected of stealing music although the sheer number of people who have downloaded music illegally makes the RIAA's job basically a living hell. 3) the RIAA goes about trying to stop pirating in the worst possible way- that is with shoddy evidence and bad if not illegal legal tactics ie. we won't take you to trial if you give us something... For those reasons I know that the only way all this nonsense is going to end is if the reason to pirate RIAA controlled music dries up completely. It is inevitable that a small but significant number of people will download music illegally regardless of any security or legal measures; what needs to happen is people who want free music go to indie bands or something instead of stealing mainstream music. However, this as you noted is unlikely as much of the music worth listening to is of the RIAA variety and thus illegal to download without proper compensation. Inevitably the music industry and everyone that benefits from the work done there will need to reach a stable equilibrium or become extinct. Either people adapt to new ways that give them access to their favorite music and yet help the artists or the entire industry suffers/dies as a result.
it is correct that a planet needs a conductive liquid rotating core to produce a magnetic field and mercury's density indicates that the core is composed of a large portion of iron and some sulfur http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005AGUSM.P23A..01S
this seems to me like they are trying to sweep the flaws of rfid uder the rug.- fix the main system and this wont be needed.
mercury has a 3:2 resonance orbit:rotation which could very well explain a very slow fluid core rotation and thus the weak field since eventually the core will sync with the rotation of the outside of the planet.
it is quite odd that mercury has a liquid metal core but a very weak magnetic field- planetary magnetic fields form when currents flow through a liquid core- the rotating core sustains the field as on earth, the sun and jupiter but mercury's is very weak- apparently it isn't rotating much
it's a trap.
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/googl e%202084.jpg
what people are going to need to learn is that decreasing CALORIE intake and getting out of the house once in a while will help them lose weight. It is really sad that society doesn't understand that the problem is simple, more in than out = gain weight, more out than in= lose weight- it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
they did fail but who can say in the future
every time you try to censor something in today's tech world you end up attracting more attention than if you had left it alone. besides, how can they possibly enforce this? they cant block the site at home or any cyber cafe or anywhere but the school's computers.
cells use what energy is available to them, they also have backup systems of sorts that prevent non-essential reactions from killing the cell [metabolic feedback] too much or too little of a substrate affects reactions like this: suppose a brain cell runs low on ATP [energy currancy] it shuts down anything but what it needs to live, in this case fewer electrical impulses which also means brain shutdown as a whole. shutting down brain function is preferrable to "death" from a cell's point of view. These cells don't just die instantaneously, they live on and switch to using anaerobic pathways that make energy without air, these can be distrupted by addition to oxygen, in fact cell processes grind to a halt when metabolic processes need to change. during that time RNA is transcribed for the needed enzymes and protein synthesis takes precedant. In this case, cooling the body down to lower oxygen requirements and introducing oxygen slowly might allow the cells to revert to near-normal function. In the past a patient was known to have been submerged underwater without air in very cold temperatures and have their heart/brain revived after 4 hours.
brings new meaning to "bots" doesn't it.
HIV mutates very quickly, it is able to survive in the body because it changes so often which also means that if this treatment works as well as they say and gets used alot, the virus will likely adapt to survive against it. eventually we will have the same problem with this treatment as we do with antibiotics.
apes, especially monkeys, are very genetically related to humans, because of this it is not surprising to find that they have what we usually think are human behaviors. Gorillas for instance, can be taught to understand sign language, monkeys are known to use tools, form tightly knit groups and even make primitive weapons for killing prey. [spears] In fact, monkeys are so very much like we humans that recently it was debated as to whether to grant them human-like rights.
this meteor shower is mostly the result of the comet Thatcher crossing very close to Earth's orbit. the comet approaches the sun shedding gas and dust which stays in orbit around the sun and once in a while Earth crosses through it. anything larger than a grain of sand or so can be visible and as has been said before, some can get very large. In fact, a meteor was found by my grandfather not long ago in a river bed- it was about 6 inches long and was quite heavy. these fragments from this comet are probably less dense than this as most objects in the asteroid belt much similar to comets are of the stony variety [type S] which are usually more porous, lighter and made mainly of rock.