Come to think of it, I'm surprised one of the Mythbusters haven't used Lego robots in their test rigs. Maybe they're biased toward combat-capable machinery.
Since IANAL, do any of you know of differences in consumer laws/regulations that may have made it easier for the German or European customer? Previous slashdot stories suggested that a Windows refund have been a mess for US customers in the past.
K, did the part of the wave you landed on push you up at all? I'm not familiar with surfing, but perhaps the water pushed you up slightly to give you a split second of
hang time.
I'm glad you asked. In a population of bacteria, there is a wide variation in the enzymes posessed by the bacteria. Some of the enzymes cause chemical parts of an antibiotic to be broken down, rendering the antibiotic ineffective (e.g., beta-lactamases). Other parts of bacterias' cellular structures may be different such that an antibiotic chemical cannot act to disrupt the structure (e.g., variations in PBPs). This article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance #Mechanisms_of_antibiotic_resistance/ gives a good rundown on the common mechanisms.
Bacteria also reproduce quickly (pick up a microbio textbook to see some examples) so survival traits can propagate in the bacteria population very fast.
There are no 100% effective drugs for anything, and sometimes "half-assing" is the best that we have availible in terms of drugs. Other methods are needed to make up the difference such as reducing population density and more sanitary condtions, as has been mentioned by other posters. Isolation and destroying ill animals are also effective methods that are not succeptible to drug resistance. Also, antibiotics are not effective against viri or fungi.
MRSA stands for methycillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus. I am not sure how many specific strains of S. aureus are known to be methycillin-resistant. Methycillin is used to test which bacteria are able to produce enzymes which make bata-lactam antibiotics (e.g., penicillin, Augmentin and many cephalosporins) ineffective.
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So THAT is what really happened aboard the Event Horizon.
Come to think of it, I'm surprised one of the Mythbusters haven't used Lego robots in their test rigs. Maybe they're biased toward combat-capable machinery.
Since IANAL, do any of you know of differences in consumer laws/regulations that may have made it easier for the German or European customer? Previous slashdot stories suggested that a Windows refund have been a mess for US customers in the past.
Crap, so, what am I supposed to do with all of my shares in HRL (Hormel)?
K, did the part of the wave you landed on push you up at all? I'm not familiar with surfing, but perhaps the water pushed you up slightly to give you a split second of hang time.
I honestly don't know this, but was Britain very gung-ho when the James Bond films were first being made?
Bacteria also reproduce quickly (pick up a microbio textbook to see some examples) so survival traits can propagate in the bacteria population very fast.
There are no 100% effective drugs for anything, and sometimes "half-assing" is the best that we have availible in terms of drugs. Other methods are needed to make up the difference such as reducing population density and more sanitary condtions, as has been mentioned by other posters. Isolation and destroying ill animals are also effective methods that are not succeptible to drug resistance. Also, antibiotics are not effective against viri or fungi.
MRSA stands for methycillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus. I am not sure how many specific strains of S. aureus are known to be methycillin-resistant. Methycillin is used to test which bacteria are able to produce enzymes which make bata-lactam antibiotics (e.g., penicillin, Augmentin and many cephalosporins) ineffective.