And this notion that there is a silent plot by the "wealthy" to constantly control the "sheep" of society via any means they can - such as drone aircraft used by law enforcement - is a little too much of a stretch for me, and for most people.
Well, to help make it a little more believable, consider a wealthy family living in a second or third world country. They commonly have private security guards, high walls, electric fences, attack dogs and will occasionally employ extrajudicial means to protect themselves since local law enforcement is inadequate. It's not that they're wealthy, but that they don't want to become poor.
Now consider a wealthy (not upper middle class, but millionaire/billionaire) family living in London. Around their mansion, they have high walls, electric fences, security guards, possibly attack dogs and will also occasionally employ extrajudicial means to protect themselves and their assets. They feel vulnerable because their living standards are so far above everyone else's (or so they perceive). It's not that they're wealthy, but who can blame them for wanting to stay that way?
It is not a silent evil plot, but nonetheless the extreme measures being taken in the UK to 'secure' the streets are serving none other than the wealthy who, in their justifiable paranoia are using their political influence to press for these advancements in law enforcement. Ask people in the street and you will find that practically no ordinary person likes being watched.
I find that introduction of mass surveillance being merely due to the honest good will of middle management is a little too much of a stretch for me.
Britain's increased surveillance measures sure did prevent the London bombings in 2005, now didn't they? No amount of surveillance equipment can overcome an inside job.
Rather than be elected for president, he'd probably have ended up in the slammer as an enemy combatant, what with the beared, the close-set eyes and that untrustworthy facial expression.
But what is a US company? Is Novell/Suse a US company? Well the point would be that companies having offices in the US would be exposed to the possibility of litigation and their products could become banned imports. I just wonder if things would be allowed to get so extreme - how would M$ look then?
Getting rid of most std's is easier than getting rid of some spyware/viruses...
We need to go on a crusade to teach people how to surf porn safely, such as avoiding using a firewall on a microsoftie, but to make sure you have a hardened system first!
It's like sex. People know full well they'll get infected, they click, they get infected, they spend several months or years in denial until their body slows to a crawl.
Maybe they want intelligent people getting convicted and sentenced to 5-10 years imprisonment so they can bargain for a reduced sentence by serving in the armed forces.
How the EU would feel about Microsoft going after EU companies with patents that they don't recognize as valid.
This is a very good point, and this is why it is very unlikely that Microsoft would be suing many companies at all. They can only realistically sue within the US and against US based companies. The result (as mentioned in another thread) is an exodus of software makers from the US. Is that likely to happen unnoticed? The US would be at a disadvantage because it will be left with a less flexible and more expensive IT infrastructure with which to do business.
Are law makers going to sit idly by and allow Microsoft to wreck the American IT industry? I doubt it.
Revenue arising from Linux related OS sales is decentralized - for Linux, the US market is very important, but not vital as it is for MS. Europe and Asia are major customer bases and in the end these threats may only play into the hands of Linux related OS sales there.
If it is SO difficult for an FSF team to search through M$ patents then it should be even more more more difficult for M$ employees to do the exact opposite search and come down with the infringing patterns (they should search through millions of FSF LOC AND their own 10e1000 patents), or not? How did they do it after all?
Perverted old microsoftie has had a lot of time to gaze through the one-way mirror at his sexy Linux neighbour (like the one in those Novell ads) with xray glasses. They don't need a thousand monkeys to go through the linux kernel and openoffice code and so on to locate patent infringements. It just takes a small team and a well developed, searchable own-patent repository and there you are.
However, if the number of patents is 200 or so, then once they are identified, they can be quickly weeded out, I would expect.
The ball is still in MSFT's court, since they have not accused anyone specific of anything specific.
I'd be more concerned with where they go after the emergency is over. The spleen collects dead red blood cells... do the artifical ones "die"? that happens to the plastic then?
That's the point of the research, I guess. The obvious advantage is that since the stuff is totally synthetic, it is guaranteed to be sterile, hence the long shelf life. But I wonder along with you about them calling the stuff 'plastic'.
Since the functions of a red blood cell (apart from carrying oxygen) include:
Preventing the haemoglobin escaping and being degraded in the blood stream
Reducing the osmotic (water pulling) effect of haemoglobin if it were free
Keeping the haemoglobin in the blood stream and not letting it leak out everywhere
Buffering acids and degrading some substances
The questions that come to mind are:
If we give this to patients, is it going to overwhelm their blood stream with solute?
What happens to the iron - if it's released en masse will it result in iron toxicity?
Presumably the plastic goes to the liver to get broken down. Is it going to cause problems there, such as cancers or compete with drugs?
Sounds like a complex manufacturing process is going to need to be developed. Will they manage to get it right so that there are no contaminants?
Unfortunately TFA has very little detail on it all.
Scientists develop invisible, weightless clothing that is so thin you can't feel it. One of their first customers has been the King of England, but orders have also been placed by the President and hundreds of middle aged men hoping to impress their wives this Mother's Day.
Oh no, we mustn't get over it. Sackcloth and ashes everyone!
It's very important that we complain and moan about China, because we need someone to blame for the coming fall in living standards in the US. We also need to be painfully aware and forever complaining about other people's social problems so that we can be in continual denial about the ones that exist at our own doorstep.
It's in our local elitist's interests that we are unaware of the problems that they cause.
Sounds like someone had this at the back of their mind for 20-odd years and then they read the Da Vinci Code and saw a way to make a quick $.
Possibly, and they corrupted the bloody thing by playing a synthesizer and other artificial instruments to ruin a beautiful a capella motet.
On the other hand, thousands of people are going to get to hear a beautiful motet, albeit a corrupted version of one. That has to be at least partially good.
..at least not directly. A DoS attack, whilst it may not win money, is a very useful thing indeed if you are taking down competition, or trying to affect the share price of a company, or taking on a political enemy.
We may be seeing the fall of random attacks, but attackers will still be busy doing jobs for money.
This is why the US has a bicameral congress with representatives with short terms, and representatives with long terms. It's also much cheaper to buy off a representative than it is to buy off an entire population.
I was just about to *bah when I read your comment:)
I reckon they should have internet voting, but for more than just candidates. Every policy should be able to be voted on, giving a mandate to carry out each one. In short, I think the public should have seats at parliament (maybe 1/3 of them or something) and have veto powers over certain legislation by virtue of voting against it online.
Since our democracies have become such a farce (for example, who ever was asked to vote directly on the issue of the Iraq war?), we should work on introducing a truly democratic system, where representation can be bypassed by people casting their votes directly on day to day legislation.
Well, you're only about 10 years behind the research with that description
Well I'm only up to the latest edition of Ganong. Better book myself into the nearest re-education camp;)
Very interesting stuff nonetheless. My guess would be that, since activated Vitamin D has a role in the way osteoclasts/blasts handle calcium, it would be doing the same thing in other tissues (such as those of the immune system), thereby regulating the basal activity of the immune system and having the ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells by increasing cytoplasmic calcium levels.
Therefore, it is as you say. The correct vitamin D levels are needed. When there is a lack of sunlight, then diet must be supplemented.
But I really think pill popping is a crappy way of fixing these problems. We either fix the diet (fortify foods) or educate.
So we should get fatter and stay in the sun longer? Actually, not as stupid as it sounds. At least then you'd be happier. It has been shown that decreased serum lipids predispose people to depression and suicide. Depression and stress itself promotes cancer. I guess if we managed to farm fish a bit more efficiently, it would really be something to think about. Problem though is, the fatso's you see in the street aren't eating too much fish, but too much MacDonald's which is practically devoid of any nutrients, as far as I can tell.
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is present in meat products. Deficiency in Vitamin D causes rickets. Vitamin D is so-called, and many would think it was not available without a dietary source, but it is produced in the skin under the influence of UV light. It then gets processed by the liver, then 'activated' in the kidneys and off it goes and does good things.
Because it is fat soluble, it is unlike Vitamin C in that stores are steady and no Vitamin D production only starts to cause problems after several months.
Whilst Vitamin D requirements increase with age, sun exposure commonly decreases with age, especially in the elderly. Much of this is simply a lifestyle issue.
Importantly, Vitamin D is already known to have immunomodulatory activities (a well functioning immune system is critical in preventing cancer over time). It is also known to induce some cancers to self-destruct.
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Well, to help make it a little more believable, consider a wealthy family living in a second or third world country. They commonly have private security guards, high walls, electric fences, attack dogs and will occasionally employ extrajudicial means to protect themselves since local law enforcement is inadequate. It's not that they're wealthy, but that they don't want to become poor.
Now consider a wealthy (not upper middle class, but millionaire/billionaire) family living in London. Around their mansion, they have high walls, electric fences, security guards, possibly attack dogs and will also occasionally employ extrajudicial means to protect themselves and their assets. They feel vulnerable because their living standards are so far above everyone else's (or so they perceive). It's not that they're wealthy, but who can blame them for wanting to stay that way?
It is not a silent evil plot, but nonetheless the extreme measures being taken in the UK to 'secure' the streets are serving none other than the wealthy who, in their justifiable paranoia are using their political influence to press for these advancements in law enforcement. Ask people in the street and you will find that practically no ordinary person likes being watched.
I find that introduction of mass surveillance being merely due to the honest good will of middle management is a little too much of a stretch for me.
Rather than be elected for president, he'd probably have ended up in the slammer as an enemy combatant, what with the beared, the close-set eyes and that untrustworthy facial expression.
We need to go on a crusade to teach people how to surf porn safely, such as avoiding using a firewall on a microsoftie, but to make sure you have a hardened system first!
It's not really 100%. it's more like 50%, guaranteed 100%, eventually, promise!
It's like sex. People know full well they'll get infected, they click, they get infected, they spend several months or years in denial until their body slows to a crawl.
Maybe they want intelligent people getting convicted and sentenced to 5-10 years imprisonment so they can bargain for a reduced sentence by serving in the armed forces.
This is a very good point, and this is why it is very unlikely that Microsoft would be suing many companies at all. They can only realistically sue within the US and against US based companies. The result (as mentioned in another thread) is an exodus of software makers from the US. Is that likely to happen unnoticed? The US would be at a disadvantage because it will be left with a less flexible and more expensive IT infrastructure with which to do business.
Are law makers going to sit idly by and allow Microsoft to wreck the American IT industry? I doubt it.
Revenue arising from Linux related OS sales is decentralized - for Linux, the US market is very important, but not vital as it is for MS. Europe and Asia are major customer bases and in the end these threats may only play into the hands of Linux related OS sales there.
I can tell you aren't a native at English, since you understand it far too well, to put it losely.
Perverted old microsoftie has had a lot of time to gaze through the one-way mirror at his sexy Linux neighbour (like the one in those Novell ads) with xray glasses. They don't need a thousand monkeys to go through the linux kernel and openoffice code and so on to locate patent infringements. It just takes a small team and a well developed, searchable own-patent repository and there you are.
However, if the number of patents is 200 or so, then once they are identified, they can be quickly weeded out, I would expect.
The ball is still in MSFT's court, since they have not accused anyone specific of anything specific.
That's the point of the research, I guess. The obvious advantage is that since the stuff is totally synthetic, it is guaranteed to be sterile, hence the long shelf life. But I wonder along with you about them calling the stuff 'plastic'.
Since the functions of a red blood cell (apart from carrying oxygen) include:
The questions that come to mind are:
- If we give this to patients, is it going to overwhelm their blood stream with solute?
- What happens to the iron - if it's released en masse will it result in iron toxicity?
- Presumably the plastic goes to the liver to get broken down. Is it going to cause problems there, such as cancers or compete with drugs?
- Sounds like a complex manufacturing process is going to need to be developed. Will they manage to get it right so that there are no contaminants?
Unfortunately TFA has very little detail on it all.Scientists develop invisible, weightless clothing that is so thin you can't feel it. One of their first customers has been the King of England, but orders have also been placed by the President and hundreds of middle aged men hoping to impress their wives this Mother's Day.
They could of course make a laptop for $10 in the event of a massive rise in the value of the US dollar, say, ten times.
Oh no, we mustn't get over it. Sackcloth and ashes everyone!
It's very important that we complain and moan about China, because we need someone to blame for the coming fall in living standards in the US. We also need to be painfully aware and forever complaining about other people's social problems so that we can be in continual denial about the ones that exist at our own doorstep.
It's in our local elitist's interests that we are unaware of the problems that they cause.
Possibly, and they corrupted the bloody thing by playing a synthesizer and other artificial instruments to ruin a beautiful a capella motet.
On the other hand, thousands of people are going to get to hear a beautiful motet, albeit a corrupted version of one. That has to be at least partially good.
..at least not directly. A DoS attack, whilst it may not win money, is a very useful thing indeed if you are taking down competition, or trying to affect the share price of a company, or taking on a political enemy.
We may be seeing the fall of random attacks, but attackers will still be busy doing jobs for money.
fnord!
I was just about to *bah when I read your comment :)
I reckon they should have internet voting, but for more than just candidates. Every policy should be able to be voted on, giving a mandate to carry out each one. In short, I think the public should have seats at parliament (maybe 1/3 of them or something) and have veto powers over certain legislation by virtue of voting against it online.
Since our democracies have become such a farce (for example, who ever was asked to vote directly on the issue of the Iraq war?), we should work on introducing a truly democratic system, where representation can be bypassed by people casting their votes directly on day to day legislation.
Well I'm only up to the latest edition of Ganong. Better book myself into the nearest re-education camp ;)
Very interesting stuff nonetheless. My guess would be that, since activated Vitamin D has a role in the way osteoclasts/blasts handle calcium, it would be doing the same thing in other tissues (such as those of the immune system), thereby regulating the basal activity of the immune system and having the ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells by increasing cytoplasmic calcium levels.
Therefore, it is as you say. The correct vitamin D levels are needed. When there is a lack of sunlight, then diet must be supplemented.
But I really think pill popping is a crappy way of fixing these problems. We either fix the diet (fortify foods) or educate.
Not so fast ;)
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and is present in meat products. Deficiency in Vitamin D causes rickets. Vitamin D is so-called, and many would think it was not available without a dietary source, but it is produced in the skin under the influence of UV light. It then gets processed by the liver, then 'activated' in the kidneys and off it goes and does good things.
Because it is fat soluble, it is unlike Vitamin C in that stores are steady and no Vitamin D production only starts to cause problems after several months.
Whilst Vitamin D requirements increase with age, sun exposure commonly decreases with age, especially in the elderly. Much of this is simply a lifestyle issue.
Importantly, Vitamin D is already known to have immunomodulatory activities (a well functioning immune system is critical in preventing cancer over time). It is also known to induce some cancers to self-destruct.
So why don't we just stop calling it music? Most of it isn't music anyway!
... do you think they could be compensating for something?