they[new zealand IRS] have been using more intelligent choices for their work than others.
That is because that is the moneymaking side of gouvernment. On the spending side it doesn't matter much how dumb you are, you can spend the money anyhow.
It's true that you need to clean before milking. But maybe it is a good idea too, to clean the teats after milking. How healthy would it be for a cow to walk around with udders/teats with (dried-up) milk on them?
Yeah it's not too good of them not to include a real reference, but OTOH, who reads these references anyway? If I'd wish to, I'd have to go to the university library to find the journal. So in the end, I think mentioning his name and University is enough reference, my guess is you'd spend less time finding this guys email or number than you'd spend with a trip to the library.
Ah I see, the linked article is not the article I am referring to... here is the New Scientist take on it. The relevant quote:
In another study, Barry Jacobs, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, gave mice the natural cannabinoid found in marijuana, THC (D9-tetrahydrocannabinol)). But he says he detected no neurogenesis, no matter what dose he gave or the length of time he gave it for.
And no, I do not know more about it than the scioentists involved.
Maybe you should do something that makes you happy insteasd of writing flaimbait posts. Go out, have some drinks, laught with your friends and maybe have some sex. Would that make you happy?
Yes indeed, I failed to detect your humor. Maybe I saw it too much as a valid concern. One might hope that the original article (not the NS summary) disproves that concern (probably by measuring what the increase in consumption is in non-stressed rats).
Because I like to amuse you so much, i'll cite it for you:
In another study, Barry Jacobs, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, gave mice the natural cannabinoid found in marijuana, THC (D9-tetrahydrocannabinol)). But he says he detected no neurogenesis, no matter what dose he gave or the length of time he gave it for. From this New Scientist article.
They found that giving rats high doses of HU210 twice a day for 10 days increased the rate of nerve cell formation, or neurogenesis, in the hippocampus by about 40%.
Are you still sure that the only method they used was injecting cannabinoids and measuring how much they ate?
I guess that experiment is an accepted test for anxiety, and prozac cum suis scores very good on it. Science gets better if you use standard test where you can. Even though your 'munchies' hypothesis sounds plausible, it still cannot explain the neurogenesis bit.
Did you read the article? That is where I got my info from. And FYI: the aargument was if cannabis causes brain cell growth, not if weed is good or bad. And as for my bias: I've grown about a kilo of the stuff over the years. Does that make my bias clear?
How else can such a comment come from someone whose nick is the chemical name for LSD:-) You are right, i made a typo, cannabinoids it is. And yes other cannaboids occur in cannabis too. But your assumption that because they are in the same group they must have the same phamacological properties is a bit of the mark. To have the same properties it must bind to the same receptors in the same amounts. There these small difference with extra groups may make a big difference how the molecule actually fits. An extra acetyl or methyl group in the place where the receptor binds may cause a significant reduction in activity. So things are no so clear-cut as you say. THC might, but it might also not, have the same effects as the tested cannabinoid.
The mentioned research used 'canaboids', which is a group of componds resembling those found in cannabis(THC). It was already known that the brain uses neurotransmitters that are in the form of canaboids and it contains several types of receptor for it, just like opiates have human equivalents in the form of endorfines. But similar results done with THC (Tetra Hydro Cannabinol), the main compound in hash and weed have found no evidence for this cellgrowth stimulation. So let's not jump for joy yet. One experiment/paper does not mean it has been accepted as scientific fact yet. Besides, you can be sure that with such a hot subject and the way research is financed/politiced there will be more research 'debunking' this even if it turns out to be true after all.
true, xenophobia or prejudice would have been a better term. But does that make it any better? With terms like 'allah' (instead of 'god') and infidels he was certainly alluding to arabs/islam.
Ah I see that is how you react to people disagreeing with you? Or where you just waiting for an opportunity to dispense your very intellectual judgements?
Please take your own advise to heart, but dont put words in my mouth that I did not say.
Well guess what, I did. That is how/why the other developer kept his changes out of CVS, which gave me no chance to incorporate them while I was working on it.
Maybe brushing off new developers/code is the best path for the project as a whole?
But how has this been achieved? A new species, not just a new variety? Evolutionary biologists will be jumping with joy as actual speciation has not been observed very often in the wild. Doing it in the lab/greenhouse is a very big feat, if this is not just a journalist with intelligence on par with their html injection security?
One definition of 'species' is that it can not reproduce with another species. If it is still able to reproduce with the parent species, it is not a separate species but a variety. Seedgrowers create new varieties (with desirable traits) but never create new species.
As for the OP's [stupid] question: Never, it will prove to be much more economic just to produce cars that pollute less. If this really true it is nothing more than a token gesture. 'Buy one of these silly plants and you can drive a SUV to get your groceries with a clear conscience'.
It would be much more environmentally friendly if the car came with a folding bike in the boot and occasionally refused to start to force the Fat American Mom to do some physical exercise. (except that healthy american moms live longer, which is actually worse for the environment. In that vein, A SUV with a pinto-quality fueltank and a boot full of 'killing you softly' cigarettes would be much more beneficial for the environment:-)
Bull. The moment you are screaming is when all hope of learning is lost. I learned a lot in university, but never have I come in a state of anger because I did not understand the topic. Software that has a gentle learning curve will never make the user scream at it in frustration.
This really must be the summum in desriptive slashdot news. Three factoids that do not resemble to be related to each other...
Is this mister whatshisname a loose cannon because he wants to stimulate online music sales? how does that realte to the markup on the retailprice for online music? Or has is this guy being paid by the collection societies to say such things? Are they desparate not to loose their monopoly?
Oh thank you so much. This is so helpfull i am ashamed that I dared to suggest the gimp has problems. Your comments really made them all disappear. I guess that a gimp user has to have your intelligence to be able to use it. Since you are so fucking zmart, you have just ruled out 94 out of 100 people.
In my world that just means you failed. If you need to go read documentation just to understand the userinterface, then the interface has missed it's goal.
Your comments about unclean code ring so true with me. I tried once to extend a module of it. What should have been one day worth of coding turned into several week cutting and cleaning up a gigantic php file of >3000 lines, just to get an understanding what was really happening. When I finally submitted my code, the maintainer just threw away my code because because he favoured a slightly different approach of cutting it up. If I wanted my extension included i was welcome to do it all again. When an upgrade to the next stable version broke all my quizzes i gave up.
I think the problem with moodle/php is that is is rather easy for a non-programmer to change some functionality. But none of these enthousiasts are experienced programmers, and I get the impression that most of the people working at Martin Dougiamas' (the original author) company all have a pedagogy/education background. The end result is that the code will never be clean. That will probably not make it any worse than BB or WebCT, a proprietary licence is by no means a guarantee for clean code, esp if you cannot see the code yourself.
PS: if you want visitors form/. , why don't you make an account here and put the url in your.sig?
Gimp has a lot of features, some of them i like, some that I may have never tried out yet. I don't do windows or Photoshop, so I cannot compare to that. But the Gimp certainly has made me scream at it. I never seem to be able to figure out how a certain feature works (the stuff with pasting and layers for instance). I am no useability expert either, but I am sure that if you get the user in a state of sreaming, there is something seriously wrong with the software. There are two ways to fix that problem; the easy way and tha hard way. The easy way is just dismissing evey complaint about it as caused by an unwillingness to learn the interface (stupid user excuse). The hard way is to actually listen, analyse and do something about the problem. But that requires hard work (not neccesarily the coding part, finding the problems in the UI may be much more work).
The moral of this story: pointing fingers at photoshop or the user will not make UI issues disappear, so please don't do that.
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they[new zealand IRS] have been using more intelligent choices for their work than others.
That is because that is the moneymaking side of gouvernment. On the spending side it doesn't matter much how dumb you are, you can spend the money anyhow.
It's true that you need to clean before milking. But maybe it is a good idea too, to clean the teats after milking. How healthy would it be for a cow to walk around with udders/teats with (dried-up) milk on them?
Unless a new victorian era is yet to come, wouldn't it be more appropriate if you said:
"What's previous Mr. Scott? Warp drive in the Victorian era?"
Or is there a future past tense that I do not know of?
Yeah it's not too good of them not to include a real reference, but OTOH, who reads these references anyway?
If I'd wish to, I'd have to go to the university library to find the journal. So in the end, I think mentioning his name and University is enough reference, my guess is you'd spend less time finding this guys email or number than you'd spend with a trip to the library.
here is the New Scientist take on it.
The relevant quote:
And no, I do not know more about it than the scioentists involved.
How unfortunate you are not happy.
Maybe you should do something that makes you happy insteasd of writing flaimbait posts. Go out, have some drinks, laught with your friends and maybe have some sex. Would that make you happy?
okay, what about this nice piece of politeness? Satisfied?
Not quite, it is your assumption that I think arab is the same as islam. Did it occur to you that I used two words, not one?
no problemo:
That looks to me like you think it is very important that the people in Indonesia are not arabs (all of them?).
Tell me, do you always get angry when people do not agree with you?
Yes indeed, I failed to detect your humor. Maybe I saw it too much as a valid concern.
One might hope that the original article (not the NS summary) disproves that concern (probably by measuring what the increase in consumption is in non-stressed rats).
Happy now?
Are you still sure that the only method they used was injecting cannabinoids and measuring how much they ate?
I guess that experiment is an accepted test for anxiety, and prozac cum suis scores very good on it. Science gets better if you use standard test where you can. Even though your 'munchies' hypothesis sounds plausible, it still cannot explain the neurogenesis bit.
I assume your ad-hominem attacks have to make up for the lack of argument?
As for racism, you seem to mix up a lot of race distinctions in your reply.
Did you read the article? That is where I got my info from.
And FYI: the aargument was if cannabis causes brain cell growth, not if weed is good or bad.
And as for my bias: I've grown about a kilo of the stuff over the years. Does that make my bias clear?
How else can such a comment come from someone whose nick is the chemical name for LSD :-)
You are right, i made a typo, cannabinoids it is. And yes other cannaboids occur in cannabis too.
But your assumption that because they are in the same group they must have the same phamacological properties is a bit of the mark. To have the same properties it must bind to the same receptors in the same amounts. There these small difference with extra groups may make a big difference how the molecule actually fits. An extra acetyl or methyl group in the place where the receptor binds may cause a significant reduction in activity. So things are no so clear-cut as you say. THC might, but it might also not, have the same effects as the tested cannabinoid.
The mentioned research used 'canaboids', which is a group of componds resembling those found in cannabis(THC). It was already known that the brain uses neurotransmitters that are in the form of canaboids and it contains several types of receptor for it, just like opiates have human equivalents in the form of endorfines.
But similar results done with THC (Tetra Hydro Cannabinol), the main compound in hash and weed have found no evidence for this cellgrowth stimulation. So let's not jump for joy yet. One experiment/paper does not mean it has been accepted as scientific fact yet.
Besides, you can be sure that with such a hot subject and the way research is financed/politiced there will be more research 'debunking' this even if it turns out to be true after all.
true, xenophobia or prejudice would have been a better term. But does that make it any better? With terms like 'allah' (instead of 'god') and infidels he was certainly alluding to arabs/islam.
Ah I see that is how you react to people disagreeing with you? Or where you just waiting for an opportunity to dispense your very intellectual judgements?
Please take your own advise to heart, but dont put words in my mouth that I did not say.
Well guess what, I did. That is how/why the other developer kept his changes out of CVS, which gave me no chance to incorporate them while I was working on it.
Maybe brushing off new developers/code is the best path for the project as a whole?
But how has this been achieved? A new species, not just a new variety?
Evolutionary biologists will be jumping with joy as actual speciation has not been observed very often in the wild. Doing it in the lab/greenhouse is a very big feat, if this is not just a journalist with intelligence on par with their html injection security?
One definition of 'species' is that it can not reproduce with another species. If it is still able to reproduce with the parent species, it is not a separate species but a variety. Seedgrowers create new varieties (with desirable traits) but never create new species.
As for the OP's [stupid] question: Never, it will prove to be much more economic just to produce cars that pollute less. If this really true it is nothing more than a token gesture. 'Buy one of these silly plants and you can drive a SUV to get your groceries with a clear conscience'.
It would be much more environmentally friendly if the car came with a folding bike in the boot and occasionally refused to start to force the Fat American Mom to do some physical exercise. (except that healthy american moms live longer, which is actually worse for the environment. In that vein, A SUV with a pinto-quality fueltank and a boot full of 'killing you softly' cigarettes would be much more beneficial for the environment
Agression based on religion is certainly bad. But your examples are racist.
Maybe, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with copyrights.
Bull. The moment you are screaming is when all hope of learning is lost. I learned a lot in university, but never have I come in a state of anger because I did not understand the topic. Software that has a gentle learning curve will never make the user scream at it in frustration.
This really must be the summum in desriptive slashdot news. Three factoids that do not resemble to be related to each other...
Is this mister whatshisname a loose cannon because he wants to stimulate online music sales? how does that realte to the markup on the retailprice for online music?
Or has is this guy being paid by the collection societies to say such things? Are they desparate not to loose their monopoly?
Oh thank you so much. This is so helpfull i am ashamed that I dared to suggest the gimp has problems. Your comments really made them all disappear.
I guess that a gimp user has to have your intelligence to be able to use it. Since you are so fucking zmart, you have just ruled out 94 out of 100 people.
In my world that just means you failed. If you need to go read documentation just to understand the userinterface, then the interface has missed it's goal.
Your comments about unclean code ring so true with me. I tried once to extend a module of it. What should have been one day worth of coding turned into several week cutting and cleaning up a gigantic php file of >3000 lines, just to get an understanding what was really happening. When I finally submitted my code, the maintainer just threw away my code because because he favoured a slightly different approach of cutting it up. If I wanted my extension included i was welcome to do it all again. When an upgrade to the next stable version broke all my quizzes i gave up.
/. , why don't you make an account here and put the url in your .sig?
I think the problem with moodle/php is that is is rather easy for a non-programmer to change some functionality. But none of these enthousiasts are experienced programmers, and I get the impression that most of the people working at Martin Dougiamas' (the original author) company all have a pedagogy/education background. The end result is that the code will never be clean.
That will probably not make it any worse than BB or WebCT, a proprietary licence is by no means a guarantee for clean code, esp if you cannot see the code yourself.
PS: if you want visitors form
Gimp has a lot of features, some of them i like, some that I may have never tried out yet. I don't do windows or Photoshop, so I cannot compare to that.
But the Gimp certainly has made me scream at it. I never seem to be able to figure out how a certain feature works (the stuff with pasting and layers for instance). I am no useability expert either, but I am sure that if you get the user in a state of sreaming, there is something seriously wrong with the software.
There are two ways to fix that problem; the easy way and tha hard way. The easy way is just dismissing evey complaint about it as caused by an unwillingness to learn the interface (stupid user excuse).
The hard way is to actually listen, analyse and do something about the problem. But that requires hard work (not neccesarily the coding part, finding the problems in the UI may be much more work).
The moral of this story: pointing fingers at photoshop or the user will not make UI issues disappear, so please don't do that.