The results of an MRI scan are composite images of increasing spatial resolution taken over a time span of minutes to tens of minutes. If a person's "liar region" of the brain lit up during a scan, that only means that region was active at some point during the scan, which could have occurred for any number of reasons during that time span.
MRI cannot be used as the sole means of evidence for this kind of study, and papers that rely solely on MRI are seen as untrustworthy or "merely-interesting" at best.
I recall reading about a recent algae fertilization attempt to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases but that failed because the algae that the experimenters thought would sink to the ocean floor actually remained bouyant. Could this blob be the result of that experiment?
I meant more than just absolute time of the term. Maybe having election cycles more staggered so we elect someone every year. We might get tired of that, though. I don't know, I just thought that comment might open some interesting discussion.
I am a student of neuroscience at the graduate level, find religion to be extremely valuable at a philosophical level and as an important tool to buttress a healthy society, and I understand that a drive toward equilibrium and low energy states is the driving force behind all interactions. I have seen the evidence that the world is globally warming, and that one of the main causes of that is the introduction of greenhouse gases by human activity.
But I also find the idea of large government to be entrapping and without any verifiable benefit to society. I prefer the self regulation of capitalism... but also understand that there needs to be some laws to stifle monopolistic corporations, or innovation will be just as stifled as if it were a socialist system (because large corporation is practically the same as large government, just with a different location of power). I also understand that capitalism and society do not work quickly enough at all times, but they are the ideal methods. Perhaps the 4 year terms should be evaluated more closely, because society definitely moves more quickly than every 2 years.
And really, who can disagree with the idea of renewable resources, either from an environmental, social, or military perspective? I enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh as an entertainer only.
I find that my political objectives are aligned with the "Democratic" party, but my prefered method is much more similar to the "Republican" party (I prefer the terms "socialist" and "privatist" as they more accurately reflect the ideas, but the party names are what they are unfortunately). So, philosophically or functionally I am a Republican, but my goals are socially liberal (not to be confused with the political Democratic Party).
I'm going to become a volunteer grant reviewer, and then only approve grants that promise to bring me free DOCSIS 3.0 to my house... and WiMax while I'm at it.
Sounds like a brilliant way to make money, at least. Horray for microtransactions! What are the implications of buying virtual items with credit, anyway? Buying nothing with nothing. It boggles the mind.
I agree completely, Shakrai, I highly doubt the network has the ability to determine the setting of the phone. Privacy, the need for a warrant, is a much more difficult thing to obtain, and probable cause has to be shown. It changes the weight of the evidence. Sure it seems like a minor point, but it is part of the flimsy nature of the cellphone as evidence.
If you made a phone call bracketing the crime and people confess that the calls were you, there's no reasonable doubt, depending on the time frame, that someone stole your phone and then gave it back to you.
Isn't that effectively the same thing? Humans now exist predominantly in cities. How can anyone in a city expect privacy by your metric? If we all wanted true privacy we would move to the country-side, but there is not enough country-side for all to have that kind of privacy. Is/should privacy (be) dependent on available land? Should the legal expectation of privacy be dependent on circumstances we cannot control? Sure, we can turn our cellphones off... but the slippery slope leads to the idea that we shouldn't expect privacy in our homes because they have windows and doors.
To me, setting my phone to silent is the same as pulling the curtain over my window at home. The legal system will have to determine if this is equivalent to an expectation of privacy.
Yes, but the point is expectation of privacy per the thread parent. When I carry a cellphone, it's because I expect it to ring, I expect to be contacted, thus there is no legal expectation of privacy. But if I have the phone set to meeting/silent, my expectation is of privacy... should that be considered in the issue of whether or not my physical location tracking data should be obtained by subpoena or a warrant?
Also, please correct my spelling and grammar in my previous post. I hadn't had my coffee yet.
What if you have it set to silent or "meeting" mode?
This just really goes to show you that you could put your phone on its Airplane setting before you commit a crime... who wants their phone ringing when their holding up a liquor store, anyway?
Yes, precisely none I would say. There are firms in Europe that supposedly inject patients with stem cells that supposedly have cured patients from everything from diabetes to spinal cord injury... and of course these are testimonials on their website, none of these stories appear in peer-reviewed literature.
I am a graduate student of Neurobiology, and I must say, none of the professors with whom I converse are at all interested in doing stem cell research, and I am also completely uninterested in embryonic or adult stem cell research and not because I'm not interested in regenerating brain or spinal tissue. My current research is looking at administering native signal peptides which signal the body's stem cells that are sitting in waiting throughout the body to divide and proliferate in a controlled, local, and specific way. These signaling compounds are being found now, and there are no moral or scientific issues with this approach. There are several labs at my institution doing this work, some for regenerating neurons of the spinal cord in mice, motor neurons (palegics), neurons of the hippocampus and basal nuclei (alz and parkinsonism), etc. This is at this point an established field with therapeutics being designed for clinical trials now.
Personally, I cannot understand the desire to inject people with foreign cancer cells, which is precisely what stem cells are, whether they are adult or embryonic. These foreign stem cells have unlimited potential to divide and are in competition with the patient's immune system, providing vast selective pressure on a set of foreign cells with, again, unlimited potential to divide and travel through the body. Sounds horrid to me as a medical scientist and as a potential future patient!
Just my quasi-professional opinion and my limited observations in my location.
There has been an on-going scandal, actually, that the Nobel committee is reticent to award the Peace Prize to a well deserved individual, jailed by the Chinese government for dissidence and crimes against the state, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and environmental activist Hu Jia. The bribes were most assuredly given in order that these Chinese freedom activists would be shot down for the award in favor of the Norwegian Ahtisaari.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-10-935738050_x.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Zhisheng
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Actually, astronauts have reported after spacewalks that their space suits collect a semi-metallic, sweet smell to them after they return to the shuttle/vehicle. Of course, depending upon the nature of the spacewalk, this could have been a collection of fine particles from welding and repairing a satellite, or exhaust that collected to the exterior of the shuttle during launch.
Here's a link to NASA.gov with an astronaut's recounting of smelling 'space residue' http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html
Urey and his student Miller showed in the 1950s that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, can spontaneously form from hydrogen, methane, and ammonia with an electrical current applied to mimic lightning (ScienceMag http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/130/3370/245) (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment).
Fox later showed that amino acids can spontaneously form small proteins.
Of course, many postulate the primordial Earth's atmosphere was carbon dioxide and nitrogen, but that's beside the point. The point is that these chemical reactions happen, and can happen spontaneously given thermodynamics and probability. It's not a matter of IF these reactions occur, just how often they do. They seem to have happened often enough to form life at least once on one planet... that is unless His Noodly Appendage is to blame for all this.
Sonne Times: Political and Social Commentary
http://jsonne.blogspot.com/
Very often it is the case that acquiring one's next 'fix' results in a dopaminergic neuron activation, resulting in a calming and pleasurable feeling. Did the study discriminate between its subjects who are or are not gamers? I assume using such an advanced game as WoW that they chose players familiar with the game. Perhaps a control group unfamiliar with it and forced to learn it for the same two hour sessions would not have been so at ease afterward... Or changing the gaming activity to bejeweled or card games.
I agree with the parent. I currently sort my own snail-junk-mail, and I do get around 60% spam in my smail. I can also sort through my own email, but far more effectively.
Why is the impetus for email spam filtration all server-side? Why not make it consumer, software side? My email server keeps all of the spam I receive and I download it all to my computer, where my computer will then sort it and mark it as spam fairly accurately. There are huge industries for anti-virus, anti-phishing, and firewall programs, why not also for spam? Let the consumer decide what to do with their email and stop touching it.
One may in fact argue that spam filtration on incoming and outgoing email is a breach of a privacy agreement you have with the ISP. Does anyone know of a legal expectation of privacy in cases like this?
It is quite similar to a mail-person opening your mail and deciding if this or that letter be delivered in a timely fashion based on the content of the mail. It is my preference that I get to choose my preference as to the usefulness of the mail I receive, that same with email.
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The results of an MRI scan are composite images of increasing spatial resolution taken over a time span of minutes to tens of minutes. If a person's "liar region" of the brain lit up during a scan, that only means that region was active at some point during the scan, which could have occurred for any number of reasons during that time span.
MRI cannot be used as the sole means of evidence for this kind of study, and papers that rely solely on MRI are seen as untrustworthy or "merely-interesting" at best.
I recall reading about a recent algae fertilization attempt to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases but that failed because the algae that the experimenters thought would sink to the ocean floor actually remained bouyant. Could this blob be the result of that experiment?
I meant more than just absolute time of the term. Maybe having election cycles more staggered so we elect someone every year. We might get tired of that, though. I don't know, I just thought that comment might open some interesting discussion.
I am a student of neuroscience at the graduate level, find religion to be extremely valuable at a philosophical level and as an important tool to buttress a healthy society, and I understand that a drive toward equilibrium and low energy states is the driving force behind all interactions. I have seen the evidence that the world is globally warming, and that one of the main causes of that is the introduction of greenhouse gases by human activity.
... but also understand that there needs to be some laws to stifle monopolistic corporations, or innovation will be just as stifled as if it were a socialist system (because large corporation is practically the same as large government, just with a different location of power). I also understand that capitalism and society do not work quickly enough at all times, but they are the ideal methods. Perhaps the 4 year terms should be evaluated more closely, because society definitely moves more quickly than every 2 years.
But I also find the idea of large government to be entrapping and without any verifiable benefit to society. I prefer the self regulation of capitalism
And really, who can disagree with the idea of renewable resources, either from an environmental, social, or military perspective? I enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh as an entertainer only.
I find that my political objectives are aligned with the "Democratic" party, but my prefered method is much more similar to the "Republican" party (I prefer the terms "socialist" and "privatist" as they more accurately reflect the ideas, but the party names are what they are unfortunately). So, philosophically or functionally I am a Republican, but my goals are socially liberal (not to be confused with the political Democratic Party).
Basically, I want my personal freedom.
I'm going to become a volunteer grant reviewer, and then only approve grants that promise to bring me free DOCSIS 3.0 to my house ... and WiMax while I'm at it.
Sounds like a brilliant way to make money, at least. Horray for microtransactions!
What are the implications of buying virtual items with credit, anyway? Buying nothing with nothing. It boggles the mind.
I agree completely, Shakrai, I highly doubt the network has the ability to determine the setting of the phone. Privacy, the need for a warrant, is a much more difficult thing to obtain, and probable cause has to be shown. It changes the weight of the evidence. Sure it seems like a minor point, but it is part of the flimsy nature of the cellphone as evidence.
If you made a phone call bracketing the crime and people confess that the calls were you, there's no reasonable doubt, depending on the time frame, that someone stole your phone and then gave it back to you.
Isn't that effectively the same thing? Humans now exist predominantly in cities. How can anyone in a city expect privacy by your metric? If we all wanted true privacy we would move to the country-side, but there is not enough country-side for all to have that kind of privacy. Is/should privacy (be) dependent on available land? Should the legal expectation of privacy be dependent on circumstances we cannot control? Sure, we can turn our cellphones off ... but the slippery slope leads to the idea that we shouldn't expect privacy in our homes because they have windows and doors.
To me, setting my phone to silent is the same as pulling the curtain over my window at home. The legal system will have to determine if this is equivalent to an expectation of privacy.
Yes, but the point is expectation of privacy per the thread parent. When I carry a cellphone, it's because I expect it to ring, I expect to be contacted, thus there is no legal expectation of privacy. But if I have the phone set to meeting/silent, my expectation is of privacy ... should that be considered in the issue of whether or not my physical location tracking data should be obtained by subpoena or a warrant?
Also, please correct my spelling and grammar in my previous post. I hadn't had my coffee yet.
What if you have it set to silent or "meeting" mode?
... who wants their phone ringing when their holding up a liquor store, anyway?
This just really goes to show you that you could put your phone on its Airplane setting before you commit a crime
Yes, precisely none I would say. There are firms in Europe that supposedly inject patients with stem cells that supposedly have cured patients from everything from diabetes to spinal cord injury ... and of course these are testimonials on their website, none of these stories appear in peer-reviewed literature.
I am a graduate student of Neurobiology, and I must say, none of the professors with whom I converse are at all interested in doing stem cell research, and I am also completely uninterested in embryonic or adult stem cell research and not because I'm not interested in regenerating brain or spinal tissue. My current research is looking at administering native signal peptides which signal the body's stem cells that are sitting in waiting throughout the body to divide and proliferate in a controlled, local, and specific way. These signaling compounds are being found now, and there are no moral or scientific issues with this approach. There are several labs at my institution doing this work, some for regenerating neurons of the spinal cord in mice, motor neurons (palegics), neurons of the hippocampus and basal nuclei (alz and parkinsonism), etc. This is at this point an established field with therapeutics being designed for clinical trials now.
Personally, I cannot understand the desire to inject people with foreign cancer cells, which is precisely what stem cells are, whether they are adult or embryonic. These foreign stem cells have unlimited potential to divide and are in competition with the patient's immune system, providing vast selective pressure on a set of foreign cells with, again, unlimited potential to divide and travel through the body. Sounds horrid to me as a medical scientist and as a potential future patient!
Just my quasi-professional opinion and my limited observations in my location.
There has been an on-going scandal, actually, that the Nobel committee is reticent to award the Peace Prize to a well deserved individual, jailed by the Chinese government for dissidence and crimes against the state, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and environmental activist Hu Jia. The bribes were most assuredly given in order that these Chinese freedom activists would be shot down for the award in favor of the Norwegian Ahtisaari. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-10-935738050_x.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Zhisheng ---- Sonne Times: Social and Political Commentary http://jsonne.blogspot.com/
Actually, astronauts have reported after spacewalks that their space suits collect a semi-metallic, sweet smell to them after they return to the shuttle/vehicle. Of course, depending upon the nature of the spacewalk, this could have been a collection of fine particles from welding and repairing a satellite, or exhaust that collected to the exterior of the shuttle during launch. Here's a link to NASA.gov with an astronaut's recounting of smelling 'space residue' http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html
Urey and his student Miller showed in the 1950s that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, can spontaneously form from hydrogen, methane, and ammonia with an electrical current applied to mimic lightning (ScienceMag http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/130/3370/245) (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment). Fox later showed that amino acids can spontaneously form small proteins. Of course, many postulate the primordial Earth's atmosphere was carbon dioxide and nitrogen, but that's beside the point. The point is that these chemical reactions happen, and can happen spontaneously given thermodynamics and probability. It's not a matter of IF these reactions occur, just how often they do. They seem to have happened often enough to form life at least once on one planet ... that is unless His Noodly Appendage is to blame for all this.
Sonne Times: Political and Social Commentary
http://jsonne.blogspot.com/
Very often it is the case that acquiring one's next 'fix' results in a dopaminergic neuron activation, resulting in a calming and pleasurable feeling. Did the study discriminate between its subjects who are or are not gamers? I assume using such an advanced game as WoW that they chose players familiar with the game. Perhaps a control group unfamiliar with it and forced to learn it for the same two hour sessions would not have been so at ease afterward... Or changing the gaming activity to bejeweled or card games.
I agree with the parent. I currently sort my own snail-junk-mail, and I do get around 60% spam in my smail. I can also sort through my own email, but far more effectively. Why is the impetus for email spam filtration all server-side? Why not make it consumer, software side? My email server keeps all of the spam I receive and I download it all to my computer, where my computer will then sort it and mark it as spam fairly accurately. There are huge industries for anti-virus, anti-phishing, and firewall programs, why not also for spam? Let the consumer decide what to do with their email and stop touching it. One may in fact argue that spam filtration on incoming and outgoing email is a breach of a privacy agreement you have with the ISP. Does anyone know of a legal expectation of privacy in cases like this? It is quite similar to a mail-person opening your mail and deciding if this or that letter be delivered in a timely fashion based on the content of the mail. It is my preference that I get to choose my preference as to the usefulness of the mail I receive, that same with email.
Taxation without representation?