I think it will become much clearer to you if you think in terms of genes, not organisms. It's not the "plant" that "recognizes" siblings, it's individual cells of the plants that behave according to an underlying set of genes. You are stuck on the "higher level" stuff like "thinking" and "smelling" without asking why those complex behaviors might have arisen and what is actually in the driver's seat.
You may think that's there's a big difference between the plant not trying to out-compete its sibling and a human being helping their sibling. But that's just because you're being confused by the window dressing.
It's unclear to me if the article is saying the matter is destroyed (well, transformed into energy) after colliding with gases and such. Anyone out there know? If not, I wonder how this relates to the dark matter question. I would think that a bunch of matter moving at 99.999% of the speed of light would make for a lot of mass, especially considering these explosions have been happening for billions of years. Or has this already been taken into account?
His employer must not have done a sufficient background check on it because he got the job.
I would strongly suggest his employer did NO background check. That seems to be the norm. There have been plenty of high profile cases where people in prominent positions were found to have lied about their academic credentials for decades.
I simply picked SSN as a secondary identifier. Yes, schools use SSN, even when they aren't supposed to. Back when I went, you had a student ID# that defaulted to your SSN unless you complained and got a random one. You can pick a lot of things. Birthdate is another. In this case, middle name might have sufficed.
Must have been tricky getting the matching social security number...
Seriously, I think this would only work for the dumbest employers. But for those employers who are likely to check at all, they'll do something more than just give the name and date of graduation. There were a half-dozen students with my name at the same time I was enrolled.
Try Net Transport. It usually works for me. Every once in a while you have to do a little detective work to get the right URL, though. It's even easier in FF with the FlashGot extension.
It's pretty silly to draw conclusions from such an abnormal subset of the general population. Is the telephone dead because I can't call up the President on a direct line? Is it dead because I can't call Robert DeNiro? Is it dead because I can't call Steve Jobs?
Was snail mail dead in 1980 because Stephen King didn't personally read all his letters?
This is fairly preposterous. People who are famous or in a commercial position will always have far more people trying to contact them than they have time for. That's why they get secretaries and let it be known that they don't personally respond to every contact. They keep private, unlisted phone numbers/email addresses that filter out anyone but those on a whitelist.
This has no real relationship to the other 99.9% of the global population.
Are you talking about add-on mpg displays like this one? It used to be $130, so that's probably true. While searching for this, I also turned up a post that said the law required any cars sold after 1996 to have an on board diagnostic computer connection in the dash. So these things just plug into that connection. This means the gap between the current law and what I'm talking about is even lower than I expected. And while these are $170, I'm sure that's not the actual cost and is especially not the cost of the generic MPG one that I always see in the cheapo cars.
I'm talking about the sensor combined with the display, which is all driven by the computer. Sorry if my shorthand was confusing. I'm guessing it's cheap and commodified by this point, much like cheap digital wristwatches.
I think you have a very poor analogy on your hands. Cars are as different from video games as they are from movies and books.
It's even less appropriate considering we've been producing cars, books and movies a lot longer than video games. Repetition with slight variation is not enough to make a "great" game this stage.
I've always wondered why every car doesn't have a mileage display. If you're unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, some cars have a display on the dashboard showing the current (real-time) mileage, trip mileage and lifetime mileage. I first saw this at least fifteen years ago. And now when I rent a car, it usually has this display. And I rent the cheapest car they carry.
Are these sensors worthless? I can see how the current mileage might be a bit suspect, but the trip mileage and lifetime mileage should be good. They can't be expensive, considering I always find them in the cheapest cars. This is one area where I've thought a government mandate would be a good thing. If it's a $5 sensor, they should require them to be put in all new cars. Then you'd actually have a lot better idea of what mileage you are getting in real world conditions (without having to keep a log every time you fill up). Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to contacting my Congressmen and see if they'll give the suggestion a chance. Maybe I'd have the best luck finding a rep whose district makes the sensors...
This might be a nightmare or a boon for arguments. With a certain person, half our arguments at some point wind up being "Them: You said 'blah blah blah'. Me: No, that's not what I said. Them:Well, that's what I remember."
I'm not sure if it would be good or bad to be able to do an instant replay.
As will, perhaps, refusing to turn over your life recorder. Sure, the 5th amendment should protect against that, but it probably won't, at least not well enough.
Actually, I think you're in a bit of a gray area. How is refusing to turn over your recorder (if it's known you have one) any different than refusing to turn over documents and emails?
What could possibly be protected is having your recorder encrypted and refusing to turn over the password. From what I've been reading, the fifth will probably protect you from turning over passwords right now. So I think the same would apply.
I have shocking news for you. I mean really shocking. This is way more shocking then when they ate the mouse in V... They DO fart. It wasn't the dog. It wasn't that open garbage can. It was her all along!
Can you imagine dealing with a life form that doesn't fart. I mean, it's embarrassing enough when one of the inmates makes a back door break-out with other humans around. But at least then you have the fall-back of knowing they've probably done it before, too.
The +/- indicator is for the Rhesus D antigen, part of the Rhesus blood group.
In reading a related wikipedia page, I see that the blood conversion technique does not remove the Rh D antigen. So the synthetic blood may have one up on it in this regard.
I would assume it wouldn't have antigens, as well (basically, it would be type O).
But you may be interested in some new research that looks to be able to remove the antigens from regular blood, thus converting all blood types to type O.
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I think it will become much clearer to you if you think in terms of genes, not organisms. It's not the "plant" that "recognizes" siblings, it's individual cells of the plants that behave according to an underlying set of genes. You are stuck on the "higher level" stuff like "thinking" and "smelling" without asking why those complex behaviors might have arisen and what is actually in the driver's seat.
You may think that's there's a big difference between the plant not trying to out-compete its sibling and a human being helping their sibling. But that's just because you're being confused by the window dressing.
Not sure this is any different than any other form of sibling recognition...
It's unclear to me if the article is saying the matter is destroyed (well, transformed into energy) after colliding with gases and such. Anyone out there know? If not, I wonder how this relates to the dark matter question. I would think that a bunch of matter moving at 99.999% of the speed of light would make for a lot of mass, especially considering these explosions have been happening for billions of years. Or has this already been taken into account?
That's why I dumped iTunes and stick strictly to Anapod Explorer. Of course, if you actually want to buy stuff from iTMS, you're SOL.
I simply picked SSN as a secondary identifier. Yes, schools use SSN, even when they aren't supposed to. Back when I went, you had a student ID# that defaulted to your SSN unless you complained and got a random one. You can pick a lot of things. Birthdate is another. In this case, middle name might have sufficed.
I think you missed my point. I was saying that just finding someone at a college with a matching name isn't going to cut it.
But maybe you meant to reply to coinreturn instead...
Must have been tricky getting the matching social security number...
Seriously, I think this would only work for the dumbest employers. But for those employers who are likely to check at all, they'll do something more than just give the name and date of graduation. There were a half-dozen students with my name at the same time I was enrolled.
Try Net Transport. It usually works for me. Every once in a while you have to do a little detective work to get the right URL, though. It's even easier in FF with the FlashGot extension.
It's pretty silly to draw conclusions from such an abnormal subset of the general population. Is the telephone dead because I can't call up the President on a direct line? Is it dead because I can't call Robert DeNiro? Is it dead because I can't call Steve Jobs?
Was snail mail dead in 1980 because Stephen King didn't personally read all his letters?
This is fairly preposterous. People who are famous or in a commercial position will always have far more people trying to contact them than they have time for. That's why they get secretaries and let it be known that they don't personally respond to every contact. They keep private, unlisted phone numbers/email addresses that filter out anyone but those on a whitelist.
This has no real relationship to the other 99.9% of the global population.
Right. And, like I was saying, even the cheapo rental had trip MPG and lifetime MPG displays you could toggle through.
I'm assuming you went for the non-ABS brakes and removed the power-steering pump. Wouldn't want people questioning your manhood. ;)
Are you talking about add-on mpg displays like this one? It used to be $130, so that's probably true. While searching for this, I also turned up a post that said the law required any cars sold after 1996 to have an on board diagnostic computer connection in the dash. So these things just plug into that connection. This means the gap between the current law and what I'm talking about is even lower than I expected. And while these are $170, I'm sure that's not the actual cost and is especially not the cost of the generic MPG one that I always see in the cheapo cars.
I'm talking about the sensor combined with the display, which is all driven by the computer. Sorry if my shorthand was confusing. I'm guessing it's cheap and commodified by this point, much like cheap digital wristwatches.
I think you have a very poor analogy on your hands. Cars are as different from video games as they are from movies and books.
It's even less appropriate considering we've been producing cars, books and movies a lot longer than video games. Repetition with slight variation is not enough to make a "great" game this stage.
I've always wondered why every car doesn't have a mileage display. If you're unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, some cars have a display on the dashboard showing the current (real-time) mileage, trip mileage and lifetime mileage. I first saw this at least fifteen years ago. And now when I rent a car, it usually has this display. And I rent the cheapest car they carry.
Are these sensors worthless? I can see how the current mileage might be a bit suspect, but the trip mileage and lifetime mileage should be good. They can't be expensive, considering I always find them in the cheapest cars. This is one area where I've thought a government mandate would be a good thing. If it's a $5 sensor, they should require them to be put in all new cars. Then you'd actually have a lot better idea of what mileage you are getting in real world conditions (without having to keep a log every time you fill up). Maybe one of these days I'll actually get around to contacting my Congressmen and see if they'll give the suggestion a chance. Maybe I'd have the best luck finding a rep whose district makes the sensors...
This might be a nightmare or a boon for arguments. With a certain person, half our arguments at some point wind up being "Them: You said 'blah blah blah'. Me: No, that's not what I said. Them:Well, that's what I remember."
I'm not sure if it would be good or bad to be able to do an instant replay.
What could possibly be protected is having your recorder encrypted and refusing to turn over the password. From what I've been reading, the fifth will probably protect you from turning over passwords right now. So I think the same would apply.
Whoosh!
We already have a virus sponge. It's called Windows.
I have shocking news for you. I mean really shocking. This is way more shocking then when they ate the mouse in V... They DO fart. It wasn't the dog. It wasn't that open garbage can. It was her all along!
Can you imagine dealing with a life form that doesn't fart. I mean, it's embarrassing enough when one of the inmates makes a back door break-out with other humans around. But at least then you have the fall-back of knowing they've probably done it before, too.
The +/- indicator is for the Rhesus D antigen, part of the Rhesus blood group.
In reading a related wikipedia page, I see that the blood conversion technique does not remove the Rh D antigen. So the synthetic blood may have one up on it in this regard.
Well, they're still pretty far away from artificially created organs. So you've still got THAT.
I would assume it wouldn't have antigens, as well (basically, it would be type O).
But you may be interested in some new research that looks to be able to remove the antigens from regular blood, thus converting all blood types to type O.