Good idea, taxes should be calculated based on mass and distance travelled. I don't see why these both can't just be reported on the tax form, or audited during renewal of the registration.
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Is Sugar Toxic?
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You really should watch the presentation all the way through. He deliberately states that there are good (neutral) and bad forms of sugar. It is the manner in which the different sugars are metabolised that determines its health risk. Glucose can be used by any cell in the body, but fructose needs to be metabolised by the liver. Fructose doesn't have the short term effects of alcohol, but it is metabolised by the liver in essentially the same way and causes the same health problems.
The problem here is when people say "sugar" is toxic, they specifically mean the ingredient used to sweeten many of our foods (table sugar, high fructose corn syrup). You don't say, I'd like two lumps of sucrose for my coffee, you just say "sugar".
I understand that there is a lot of crap diets and unverified "science" out there, but this doesn't seem to be the case if you actually listen to what he says.
I'm a little confused about placing tabs at the top of window above the address bar. They say it gives the tabs top visual priority, but it seems the opposite to me. If you are browsing webpages amongst different tabs, then surely placing the tabs at the bottom is better since that reduces the distance between the tabs and the content on the page. Plus, tabs at the bottom reduces visual interference from a largely irrelevant address bar. I'm hoping this will be customisable, but putting it at the top of the page as a major feature seems daft.
It's unlikely all paper editions of books will cease to exist. The record industry is probably a good model for what will happen. The vast majority of content is digital, but there is still a strong niche market for vinyl. Vinyl is adored for the experience it provides, much in the same way paper books are.
Lesley Hazelton in her TED talk about the koran stated that there isn't any mention about getting virgins in the text. She compares this to the imagery of angels in heaven which similarly has no mention in the bible.
It would make more sense to get 10 results based on facial recognition and then use other data to narrow the list based on other evidence, rather than continuing to rely on one aspect that is already known to be prone to error.
It's been done, although the output isn't labelled as "music" but as a "sonification". In this way you can quickly get an idea of the flow of your code, rather than solely relying on your eyes to interpret the overall structure.
This seems like the type of devices they use for speech analysis in relation to tongue position. I wonder if this can be adapted for language coaching, or perhaps for field measurements of languages used in remote areas.
Is it really any different anywhere else? If you polled any community in any country I'm guessing a majority would know more about their sports teams compared to the history of rockets and space exploration. It really is a case of "our stupidity knows no borders."
This all happened way back in the early GW Bush administration. It's unclear how many of these guys are still around. The article is definitely worth a read. There was talk of shooting down passenger aircraft over some of the "intelligence" gathered by his software (ok, so it wasn't really considered, but the fact it was suggested at all is alarming).
In regards to firing the people responsible, FTA:
The C.I.A. never did an assessment to determine how a ruse had turned into a full-blown international incident, officials said, nor was anyone held accountable. In fact, agency officials who oversaw the technology directorate — including Donald Kerr, who helped persuade George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, that the software was credible — were promoted, former officials said.
Isn't that the penalty for truancy to begin with? They're already going to be fined and detained, so this is offering them a less severe punishment if they can accept the terms responsibility.
No idea if it's practical as I have no experience, but I was thinking this could eventually be useful for maintenance on large ships. You're in water and have a power source, so just jump over the edge, do any repairs that need to be done, and rocket back up on deck. Of course there are other options, like sending boats into the water or using rope ladders, but this has the potential of being faster and more flexible.
Imagine if all the people that participate in these attacks instead write letters to their legislature as you suggest. It probably would have a lot more sway than their current methods. Although it wouldn't have the adrenaline/endorphin rush tied to engaging in an illegal behaviour while imagining civilisation laid waste before you.
If this is the only way they feel they can express their political views, fair enough. They better be prepared for the consequences. But to suggest all legal avenues are closed isn't a good description of the situation.
Maybe so, but it's a pretty good way to get people to read your paper.
First question from the survey:
1. Have you read the paper by Forbes and Kroupa accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia entitled "What is a galaxy? Cast your vote here..." (its available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3309)
Schubert and Lowenstein are not the first to uncover organisms that are astonishingly long-lived. About a decade ago, there were claims of discoveries of 250-million-year-old bacteria. The results weren't reproduced, and remain controversial.
Schubert, however, was able to reproduce his results. Not only did he grow the same organisms again in his own lab, he sent crystals to another lab, which then got the same results.
"So this wasn't something that was just a contaminant from our lab," Schubert said.
The article also mentions that his original finding was about a year ago, but his work is actually being published now.
You are essentially just comparing the brain to the computer. We would likely have better spatial resolution if we had more ears and eyes as well. And most of the capabilities of the ear, especially in regards to space, is learned based on the combination with other responses like vision and touch. If you lived your life from the beginning with your only sense being a single ear, you'd probably do worse than a Kinect unless someone explicitly taught you what the things you were hearing meant, if you could ever learn to understand them at all.
I wonder how well this would work. If the tariffs are too low, the companies won't change their behaviour and probably just raise their fees. If they are too high, it might end up being more economical to ship to a neighbouring country with looser regulations and ship the last leg over land, creating a net increase of pollution.
There would need to be large scale cooperation to pull this off.
It isn't absolute brain size they're talking about, it's brain size in relation to the body. Crows are highly intelligent, and their brains are larger in ratio to their body than most (if not all) birds. This would support the argument that dogs are more intelligent since they have a higher brain-body ratio compared to cats.
Maybe this can actually be used as a training tool for people that aren't able to interact with others because of their inability to recognise common social cues. (Not accusing you of anything, just saying)
The US isn't a dumptruck you can throw blanket assessments on; it's a series of states with their own laws that extend those set federally.
Besides, I think the main issue isn't that there aren't laws setup to protect workers, it's that they are often poorly enforced. Enforcement is carried out by state and federal attourneys general, and by individual lawsuits initiated by the public. Perhaps other countries are better at enforcement, or maybe the public is less inclined to put up with unfair practices.
But keep in mind, there is an active slave trade in all developed countries, so presuming the infallibility of a certain type of government or framework of law isn't realistic.
Except that doctors benefit greatly from "open-note" exams as well.
A collection of hospitals in eight cities around the globe has successfully demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.
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Good idea, taxes should be calculated based on mass and distance travelled. I don't see why these both can't just be reported on the tax form, or audited during renewal of the registration.
You really should watch the presentation all the way through. He deliberately states that there are good (neutral) and bad forms of sugar. It is the manner in which the different sugars are metabolised that determines its health risk. Glucose can be used by any cell in the body, but fructose needs to be metabolised by the liver. Fructose doesn't have the short term effects of alcohol, but it is metabolised by the liver in essentially the same way and causes the same health problems.
The problem here is when people say "sugar" is toxic, they specifically mean the ingredient used to sweeten many of our foods (table sugar, high fructose corn syrup). You don't say, I'd like two lumps of sucrose for my coffee, you just say "sugar".
I understand that there is a lot of crap diets and unverified "science" out there, but this doesn't seem to be the case if you actually listen to what he says.
I'm a little confused about placing tabs at the top of window above the address bar. They say it gives the tabs top visual priority, but it seems the opposite to me. If you are browsing webpages amongst different tabs, then surely placing the tabs at the bottom is better since that reduces the distance between the tabs and the content on the page. Plus, tabs at the bottom reduces visual interference from a largely irrelevant address bar. I'm hoping this will be customisable, but putting it at the top of the page as a major feature seems daft.
It's unlikely all paper editions of books will cease to exist. The record industry is probably a good model for what will happen. The vast majority of content is digital, but there is still a strong niche market for vinyl. Vinyl is adored for the experience it provides, much in the same way paper books are.
Lesley Hazelton in her TED talk about the koran stated that there isn't any mention about getting virgins in the text. She compares this to the imagery of angels in heaven which similarly has no mention in the bible.
It would make more sense to get 10 results based on facial recognition and then use other data to narrow the list based on other evidence, rather than continuing to rely on one aspect that is already known to be prone to error.
They already put their Japanese citizens in concentration camps for "national security", so I'm not convinced your plan will work.
You'd still think they'd offer both formats, with one of those "What is this?" links, like you often see with ogg downloads.
It's been done, although the output isn't labelled as "music" but as a "sonification". In this way you can quickly get an idea of the flow of your code, rather than solely relying on your eyes to interpret the overall structure.
This seems like the type of devices they use for speech analysis in relation to tongue position. I wonder if this can be adapted for language coaching, or perhaps for field measurements of languages used in remote areas.
Is it really any different anywhere else? If you polled any community in any country I'm guessing a majority would know more about their sports teams compared to the history of rockets and space exploration. It really is a case of "our stupidity knows no borders."
The C.I.A. never did an assessment to determine how a ruse had turned into a full-blown international incident, officials said, nor was anyone held accountable. In fact, agency officials who oversaw the technology directorate — including Donald Kerr, who helped persuade George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, that the software was credible — were promoted, former officials said.
Isn't that the penalty for truancy to begin with? They're already going to be fined and detained, so this is offering them a less severe punishment if they can accept the terms responsibility.
Obligatory Perry Bible Fellowship reference: Photo Album
No idea if it's practical as I have no experience, but I was thinking this could eventually be useful for maintenance on large ships. You're in water and have a power source, so just jump over the edge, do any repairs that need to be done, and rocket back up on deck. Of course there are other options, like sending boats into the water or using rope ladders, but this has the potential of being faster and more flexible.
Imagine if all the people that participate in these attacks instead write letters to their legislature as you suggest. It probably would have a lot more sway than their current methods. Although it wouldn't have the adrenaline/endorphin rush tied to engaging in an illegal behaviour while imagining civilisation laid waste before you.
If this is the only way they feel they can express their political views, fair enough. They better be prepared for the consequences. But to suggest all legal avenues are closed isn't a good description of the situation.
1. Have you read the paper by Forbes and Kroupa accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia entitled "What is a galaxy? Cast your vote here..." (its available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3309)
Schubert and Lowenstein are not the first to uncover organisms that are astonishingly long-lived. About a decade ago, there were claims of discoveries of 250-million-year-old bacteria. The results weren't reproduced, and remain controversial. Schubert, however, was able to reproduce his results. Not only did he grow the same organisms again in his own lab, he sent crystals to another lab, which then got the same results. "So this wasn't something that was just a contaminant from our lab," Schubert said.
The article also mentions that his original finding was about a year ago, but his work is actually being published now.
You are essentially just comparing the brain to the computer. We would likely have better spatial resolution if we had more ears and eyes as well. And most of the capabilities of the ear, especially in regards to space, is learned based on the combination with other responses like vision and touch. If you lived your life from the beginning with your only sense being a single ear, you'd probably do worse than a Kinect unless someone explicitly taught you what the things you were hearing meant, if you could ever learn to understand them at all.
I wonder how well this would work. If the tariffs are too low, the companies won't change their behaviour and probably just raise their fees. If they are too high, it might end up being more economical to ship to a neighbouring country with looser regulations and ship the last leg over land, creating a net increase of pollution.
There would need to be large scale cooperation to pull this off.
It isn't absolute brain size they're talking about, it's brain size in relation to the body. Crows are highly intelligent, and their brains are larger in ratio to their body than most (if not all) birds. This would support the argument that dogs are more intelligent since they have a higher brain-body ratio compared to cats.
Maybe this can actually be used as a training tool for people that aren't able to interact with others because of their inability to recognise common social cues. (Not accusing you of anything, just saying)
The US isn't a dumptruck you can throw blanket assessments on; it's a series of states with their own laws that extend those set federally. Besides, I think the main issue isn't that there aren't laws setup to protect workers, it's that they are often poorly enforced. Enforcement is carried out by state and federal attourneys general, and by individual lawsuits initiated by the public. Perhaps other countries are better at enforcement, or maybe the public is less inclined to put up with unfair practices. But keep in mind, there is an active slave trade in all developed countries, so presuming the infallibility of a certain type of government or framework of law isn't realistic.
A collection of hospitals in eight cities around the globe has successfully demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114172304.htm
Except that you can not only get benefits, but also nasty side-effects from placebos.