Pharmaceuticals in drinking water are usually found at parts per trillion and parts per quadrillion. For example, in those concentrations, you can take a drink of caffeinated soda, breathe on the water then have it analyzed and caffeine will be detected in the water.
You can have water analyzed and find just about anything in it at such low concentrations.
I have done a few searches on myself, just to see what comes up.
Absolutely nothing comes up on Google when I search myself. I am always amazed how much info people will put on the internet (blogs, facebook and so forth) then be shocked when those college binge drinking from a beer-bong pictures show up somewhere.
My theory: If it might be potentially embarrassing to you in the future, don't put it on the internet. Plain and simple.
If the printed panels are effective at collecting solar energy, combined with a low cost of manufacturing, it will make solar panels affordable for almost every income level, not just the incredibly wealthy.
Volcanoes not only belch out gas, but aerosol droplets and ash are blasted into the stratosphere during major eruptions. If the major gas component of eruptions is carbon dioxide, that "evil" global warming gas, it will cause temps to increase globally. While on the other hand, if sulfur dioxide is the major component of an eruption it can lead to an over all global temperature drop. [pulling info from my brain from college courses]
If volcanoes, globally, are belching out a massive amount of gas, it will eventually lead to a dramatic change in atmospheric conditions. The altered atmospheric conditions will then have the domino effect on global climate. Any dramatic fluctuation in climate obviously didn't occur over a short period of time, but would have affected the dinosaurs in the long run(droughts, famine or temperatures they were not able to adapt to) and, in short, lead to the Darwinian 'survival of the fittest'. The mammals were the ones that were able to adapt, so they 'took over'.
Personally, I think all this hype over a massive flu pandemic is nothing more than fear mongering and massive stupidity. Having drills for a flu outbreak? WTF? They hae been touting this crap for the last 2 years... and nothing.
If the U.S. really wanted to cut back the possibility of the spread of flu, the thing that needs to change is the corporate mentality of this country. That and some basic hygiene [wash your hands people and use a damn tissue].
Presenteeism is a major problem in the US. People come to work when they are sick and at worst, contagious, instead of staying home because they don't have any sick days or they cannot afford to miss a day of work, or worse yet, get fired if they don't come in.
If people could be more focused on getting better to be more productive, instead of worry about their job security if they call in sick, "that report just has to get done" or "the office can't function without me" attitude and coming into the workplace coughing and hacking on everyone and everything and making everyone else sick. Stay home, especially if you have a job dealing with the public [cashier, food handling, etc].
[rant]Also, if you are too sick to go to work, stay the fuck home and do not try to catch up on your errands... arrrrgghhh!!![/rant]
The article made it sound as if he was going to do/is doing a digital restoration of the Mona Lisa. It would be a shame to let him mess with the original.
...a bill introduced into Congress that would allow citizens who have been victimized by identity theft to seek repayment for the money and time spent repairing their credit history.
Who will the identity theft victimized citizens be seeking repayment from exactly? Will they only be able to seek repayment if the actual perpetrator has been caught, or from the banks/credit card companies?
they push teachers to teach children basic skills like reading, writing, mathematics, public speaking, and give them a thorough knowledge of world and American history, logic, and problem solving.
Too bad they keep pushing the basic skills curriculum out to make way for bullshit classes like "diversity awareness" and now "online safety". Here in Nevada, Geography isn't even on the curriculum! Uh, last I checked that was something you should know about. Some of the students here can't even identify states in their own country. I have a friend who teaches high school physics, the subject of Three Mile Island came up. They didn't know that Pennsylvania was in the United States. This was an AP course! I could Identify all the states and most of the capital cities on a blank map before I was out of elementary school. And no, I am not that old, I'm only 31.
No, just a company trying to evolve??? They are currently in the business of nicotine. Who says nicotine pills of some kind won't be the new cigarette. More importantly, if everyone quits smoking, who will supply the "new" nicotine. If I were in the tobacco business, I would be working franticly (if they haven't done so already) a new way to supply people with nicotine, ways to get it out of the plant in as pure a form as possible...we've known for a long time nicotine is good for people, it is simply the delivery method that sucks. Sounds like a great investment to me.
I smoke and quitting the cigs is hard, especially if you only half-heartedly want to quit. If I could get my nicotine fix from a pill instead of from a cigarette that would be great.
Same thing goes for caffeine. Soda isn't good for you. Regular has too many "empty" calories and diet soda has strange preservatives in it that get all weird if the soda gets hot. I would gladly take my doses of caffeine from a pill. Especially if I knew it wouldn't make me all jumpy like coffee.
It's true though, sometimes it is not the actual drug, just the delivery method.
Everything I have heard about these type of bootlegs is that they are grainy with bad sound. I can't see that as a great entertainment experience.
On the other hand, in Wired magazine a few months ago they had an article relating to high quality unauthorized/pirated movies (from academy screening DVDs and so forth) being distributed on the internet. The article concluded that most seemed to be inside jobs.
That depends on which state you're in. In the two states that I've lived in where I've owned a vehicle (Michigan and Florida), the content of gasoline is regulated by the state department of agriculture. If it has ethanol in it, the pump has to say it has ethanol in it. This is partly because some types of gasoline engines absolutely cannot have gasoline with any ethanol it because it will cause engine damage. The gas stations I've gotten gas from (primarily Speedway, Mobil, BP, Hess and Circle K) don't change the stickers that list the content on them in the summer months, so I would have to assume that they are not adding ethanol to the gas in the summer, at least if they're complying with state laws.
Here in Nevada they add MTBE (methyl tert butyl ether) to the fuel to reduce pollutants during certain months (even though MTBE is a mjor environmental contaminant once it hits water). They don't change the stickers, but I have noticed that they do say MTBE is added between "abc" and "xyz" dates. So one can assume that if they are buying fuel betwwn those dates, then MTBE has been added. AFAIK they don't add ethanol to the fuel here, but there are some petrol stations that do sell the E85 fuel.
Instead of genetic modification of plants for high cellulose yield, why not look into using existing plants with a higher cellulose yield (than, say, corn)? I could not come up with anything with a quick Google search, but I am sure they exist.
However, it would be humorous to see people picketing fuel stations "No FrankenFuels!!" & "No GMF! Think of the children!" etc...
I don't like the idea of buying music online that can't be burned onto a CD as a back-up due to DRM controls
Well I don't know of a online site that doesn't allow burning onto a CD. Got any examples?
I was under the impression that it the downloaded music had DRM controls on it , you cannot burn it to CD. My sister has an ipod and downloads music from iTunes and whatnot, and she cannot make a CD file of the mp3s from iTunes.
When I was younger, I almost always bought the newest albums, because the music was good, or at least I thought so.... I don't want to pay $15 for an album that is crap (which describes most, but not all, of new music today).
Congratulations, you have reached middle age. Next step - complaining that you can't make out the words. Did you think you were exempt from this? The problem here is not the music companies, it's that you are older and are still expecting a mainly youth-driven market to appeal to you. It's not that the album is crap, it's that it is not intended for you.
I buy music that is mainstream, but more on the indy side. I also buy music from The Killers, Modest Mouse, White Stripes and even Gnarles Barkley. I am talking the manufactured music, meaning music from groups that would never have gotten together if it weren't for some recording studio auditioning for the new 'pop tart' or 'boy band' crap that is the Top 40. I didn't say all new music is crap, just most of it.
I also didn't say that I bought less music than I did when I was younger. In fact I buy more. I am just more particular. FTR I never liked 'boy band' or 'pop tart' music when I was younger either.
As far as the music not being intended for me, that is BS. Music shouldn't be something that has an age range. If the music is good, it's good. My 60 year old mother who literally hated all new music will hear something I am playing and say "that's pretty good, who is it?" Now she's buying Flogging Molly and all sorts of stuff that has me asking "what did you do with my mother?"
"AllOfMP3 has been a thorn in the side of the RIAA and the US government for years. Last year, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said that if Russia wants to join the WTO, they should shut down the pirate music website that is robbing US recording companies of sales."
The RIAA is robbing itself of legitimate music sales because the recording companies can't be bothered to put music out that is actually worth paying for. Now they have taken to bullying countries for admission into the WTO.
When I was younger, I almost always bought the newest albums, because the music was good, or at least I thought so. Nowadays I still buy music, a majority from indy labels. I buy CDs, I don't like the idea of buying music online that can't be burned onto a CD as a back-up due to DRM controls. I guess I am just more particular of what I buy these days, mostly because I don't want to pay $15 for an album that is crap (which describes most, but not all, of new music today).
FTSummary: "Shouldn't an artist be able to give away his own music if he wants to without fear of industry retaliation?"
Hell, no -- "All your talents are own."
have "unexplained absences been considered potential espionage indicators"?
There were classes that I took that I hardly ever showed up to, such as my CS classes.
FBI: You missed an awful lot of your CS classes. This means you might be a terrorist engaging in espionage, so we're going to investigate you.
ME: I missed a lot of classes because the class was a dumb requirement and I already knew all of the info. Did you miss the part where I got an A?
The real question that should be asked is why was the employee allowed to take the laptop with him on vacation. After all, the laptop is government property and belonged to Sandia National Labs. If the employee was going on vacation, he should have taken his personal laptop, not his work computer.
If SNL (and any other government agency for that matter) had stricter rules regarding personal use outside of work, them things like this might not happen as often.
It really shouldn't be a surprise that a wi-fi signal gets weaker as you move away from the source. This would be the same as people saying "I had no idea that the further away from a cell tower you get the weaker the reception."
"It was almost like if you wanted to have remote access, you'd better expect to not have a good experience," says Mr. Friemann, 38 years old, who is based in Cherry Hill, N.J.
"In today's culture, parents are increasingly worried that their children are exposed to obscene, indecent, and violent programming," Rep. Lipinski said in a statement. "While there is no doubt that parents are the first line of defense in protecting their kids, clearly they need more help."
People today want kids, since they are the new hot fashion item, but they don't want to actually have to discipline them or set ground rules in fear of hurting their feelings or not being their friend. These people would rather have the government make restrictions for what everyone watches or listens to for fear that their precious children might hear a dirty word or see a tit.
When I was a kid if my parents didn't like me watching certain programming they either changed the channel or turned off the television. I was told to go read a book or do something else constructive. The concept isn't a hard one to figure out. IMHO I think a lot of these censorship happy people are just lazy parents.
I like the idea of a la carte cable programming [why do I have to pay for 25 channels of Spanish language programming?]. However, if having a la carte programming comes at a cost of bull$hit "Nanny State" indecency regulations being applied to the programming that I voluntarily pay for, I'd rather not have a la carte cable.
I just guess what I was trying to say was that the current administartion does not seem to value the scientific method or have an understanding of science as a whole. But then again any group that wants to "prove a point" will manipulate the dataset and abuse the scientific method to prove said point. I was just in a bad mood when I wrote that.
What does one expect from a White House administration run by a man who was C average student who thinks he has a direct telephone line to Jesus and thinks he know what is best for everybody?
We close the lid when we are done with our business to keep the cats out of the toilet. It's bad enough that they make their toys "go swimming" in the water dish. Try fishing waterlogged cat toys out of the toilet. I know it's "clean" water, but still nasty.
With having to put the lid down, then both my husband and I have to take some sort of "action" when using the loo, instead of it being the very once sided "put the seat down". I just son't understand why they need to study this kind of crap. I think it is more of some sort of power trip women use on their husbands to make themselves feel special when in fact it does nothing more than put stress on the relationship.
wife: "I wear the pants in this family."
husband: "I get to wear the pants when my wife isn't around, but sometimes I get to wear the capris [short pants] when she is."
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They are already detecting in parts per quadrillion... Run for the hills!!!
Pharmaceuticals in drinking water are usually found at parts per trillion and parts per quadrillion. For example, in those concentrations, you can take a drink of caffeinated soda, breathe on the water then have it analyzed and caffeine will be detected in the water.
You can have water analyzed and find just about anything in it at such low concentrations.
I guess I should have stated that absolutely nothing of any embarrassment factor comes up. My published papers under my maiden name do.
When I was 13, I had to look myself up in the card catalog... we didn't have fancy Google searched back then...
...what?
I have done a few searches on myself, just to see what comes up.
Absolutely nothing comes up on Google when I search myself. I am always amazed how much info people will put on the internet (blogs, facebook and so forth) then be shocked when those college binge drinking from a beer-bong pictures show up somewhere.
My theory: If it might be potentially embarrassing to you in the future, don't put it on the internet. Plain and simple.
If the printed panels are effective at collecting solar energy, combined with a low cost of manufacturing, it will make solar panels affordable for almost every income level, not just the incredibly wealthy.
Volcanoes not only belch out gas, but aerosol droplets and ash are blasted into the stratosphere during major eruptions. If the major gas component of eruptions is carbon dioxide, that "evil" global warming gas, it will cause temps to increase globally. While on the other hand, if sulfur dioxide is the major component of an eruption it can lead to an over all global temperature drop. [pulling info from my brain from college courses]
If volcanoes, globally, are belching out a massive amount of gas, it will eventually lead to a dramatic change in atmospheric conditions. The altered atmospheric conditions will then have the domino effect on global climate. Any dramatic fluctuation in climate obviously didn't occur over a short period of time, but would have affected the dinosaurs in the long run(droughts, famine or temperatures they were not able to adapt to) and, in short, lead to the Darwinian 'survival of the fittest'. The mammals were the ones that were able to adapt, so they 'took over'.
Personally, I think all this hype over a massive flu pandemic is nothing more than fear mongering and massive stupidity. Having drills for a flu outbreak? WTF? They hae been touting this crap for the last 2 years... and nothing.
If the U.S. really wanted to cut back the possibility of the spread of flu, the thing that needs to change is the corporate mentality of this country. That and some basic hygiene [wash your hands people and use a damn tissue].
Presenteeism is a major problem in the US. People come to work when they are sick and at worst, contagious, instead of staying home because they don't have any sick days or they cannot afford to miss a day of work, or worse yet, get fired if they don't come in.
If people could be more focused on getting better to be more productive, instead of worry about their job security if they call in sick, "that report just has to get done" or "the office can't function without me" attitude and coming into the workplace coughing and hacking on everyone and everything and making everyone else sick. Stay home, especially if you have a job dealing with the public [cashier, food handling, etc].
[rant]Also, if you are too sick to go to work, stay the fuck home and do not try to catch up on your errands... arrrrgghhh!!![/rant]
The article made it sound as if he was going to do/is doing a digital restoration of the Mona Lisa. It would be a shame to let him mess with the original.
Too bad they keep pushing the basic skills curriculum out to make way for bullshit classes like "diversity awareness" and now "online safety". Here in Nevada, Geography isn't even on the curriculum! Uh, last I checked that was something you should know about. Some of the students here can't even identify states in their own country. I have a friend who teaches high school physics, the subject of Three Mile Island came up. They didn't know that Pennsylvania was in the United States. This was an AP course! I could Identify all the states and most of the capital cities on a blank map before I was out of elementary school. And no, I am not that old, I'm only 31.
I weep for the future!
Same thing goes for caffeine. Soda isn't good for you. Regular has too many "empty" calories and diet soda has strange preservatives in it that get all weird if the soda gets hot. I would gladly take my doses of caffeine from a pill. Especially if I knew it wouldn't make me all jumpy like coffee.
It's true though, sometimes it is not the actual drug, just the delivery method.
Everything I have heard about these type of bootlegs is that they are grainy with bad sound. I can't see that as a great entertainment experience.
On the other hand, in Wired magazine a few months ago they had an article relating to high quality unauthorized/pirated movies (from academy screening DVDs and so forth) being distributed on the internet. The article concluded that most seemed to be inside jobs.
Here in Nevada they add MTBE (methyl tert butyl ether) to the fuel to reduce pollutants during certain months (even though MTBE is a mjor environmental contaminant once it hits water). They don't change the stickers, but I have noticed that they do say MTBE is added between "abc" and "xyz" dates. So one can assume that if they are buying fuel betwwn those dates, then MTBE has been added. AFAIK they don't add ethanol to the fuel here, but there are some petrol stations that do sell the E85 fuel.
Instead of genetic modification of plants for high cellulose yield, why not look into using existing plants with a higher cellulose yield (than, say, corn)? I could not come up with anything with a quick Google search, but I am sure they exist.
However, it would be humorous to see people picketing fuel stations "No FrankenFuels!!" & "No GMF! Think of the children!" etc...
I was under the impression that it the downloaded music had DRM controls on it , you cannot burn it to CD. My sister has an ipod and downloads music from iTunes and whatnot, and she cannot make a CD file of the mp3s from iTunes.
When I was younger, I almost always bought the newest albums, because the music was good, or at least I thought so
I buy music that is mainstream, but more on the indy side. I also buy music from The Killers, Modest Mouse, White Stripes and even Gnarles Barkley. I am talking the manufactured music, meaning music from groups that would never have gotten together if it weren't for some recording studio auditioning for the new 'pop tart' or 'boy band' crap that is the Top 40. I didn't say all new music is crap, just most of it.
I also didn't say that I bought less music than I did when I was younger. In fact I buy more. I am just more particular. FTR I never liked 'boy band' or 'pop tart' music when I was younger either.
As far as the music not being intended for me, that is BS. Music shouldn't be something that has an age range. If the music is good, it's good. My 60 year old mother who literally hated all new music will hear something I am playing and say "that's pretty good, who is it?" Now she's buying Flogging Molly and all sorts of stuff that has me asking "what did you do with my mother?"
The RIAA is robbing itself of legitimate music sales because the recording companies can't be bothered to put music out that is actually worth paying for. Now they have taken to bullying countries for admission into the WTO.
When I was younger, I almost always bought the newest albums, because the music was good, or at least I thought so. Nowadays I still buy music, a majority from indy labels. I buy CDs, I don't like the idea of buying music online that can't be burned onto a CD as a back-up due to DRM controls. I guess I am just more particular of what I buy these days, mostly because I don't want to pay $15 for an album that is crap (which describes most, but not all, of new music today).
"All your talents are belong to us!"
have "unexplained absences been considered potential espionage indicators"?
There were classes that I took that I hardly ever showed up to, such as my CS classes.
FBI: You missed an awful lot of your CS classes. This means you might be a terrorist engaging in espionage, so we're going to investigate you.
ME: I missed a lot of classes because the class was a dumb requirement and I already knew all of the info. Did you miss the part where I got an A?
The real question that should be asked is why was the employee allowed to take the laptop with him on vacation. After all, the laptop is government property and belonged to Sandia National Labs. If the employee was going on vacation, he should have taken his personal laptop, not his work computer.
c le/2006/06/29/AR2006062900352.html/
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/10/govt _id_theft.html/
If SNL (and any other government agency for that matter) had stricter rules regarding personal use outside of work, them things like this might not happen as often.
a quick search yields:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
Some people are just so negative.
People today want kids, since they are the new hot fashion item, but they don't want to actually have to discipline them or set ground rules in fear of hurting their feelings or not being their friend. These people would rather have the government make restrictions for what everyone watches or listens to for fear that their precious children might hear a dirty word or see a tit.
When I was a kid if my parents didn't like me watching certain programming they either changed the channel or turned off the television. I was told to go read a book or do something else constructive. The concept isn't a hard one to figure out. IMHO I think a lot of these censorship happy people are just lazy parents.
I like the idea of a la carte cable programming [why do I have to pay for 25 channels of Spanish language programming?]. However, if having a la carte programming comes at a cost of bull$hit "Nanny State" indecency regulations being applied to the programming that I voluntarily pay for, I'd rather not have a la carte cable.
I just guess what I was trying to say was that the current administartion does not seem to value the scientific method or have an understanding of science as a whole. But then again any group that wants to "prove a point" will manipulate the dataset and abuse the scientific method to prove said point. I was just in a bad mood when I wrote that.
What does one expect from a White House administration run by a man who was C average student who thinks he has a direct telephone line to Jesus and thinks he know what is best for everybody?
We close the lid when we are done with our business to keep the cats out of the toilet. It's bad enough that they make their toys "go swimming" in the water dish. Try fishing waterlogged cat toys out of the toilet. I know it's "clean" water, but still nasty.
With having to put the lid down, then both my husband and I have to take some sort of "action" when using the loo, instead of it being the very once sided "put the seat down". I just son't understand why they need to study this kind of crap. I think it is more of some sort of power trip women use on their husbands to make themselves feel special when in fact it does nothing more than put stress on the relationship.
wife: "I wear the pants in this family." husband: "I get to wear the pants when my wife isn't around, but sometimes I get to wear the capris [short pants] when she is."