Not to mention attempts to use logic to supplant evidence. Show me that genetic diseases have increased significantly and you can start going on about de-evolution. It's far from proven that release from selective forces results in dramatic change, especially that would be observeable over just the few generations since hemophillia started being surviveable.
Again, what indication do you have that any of their messages would have resonated with a largely apathetic, willfully ignorant american public? I think their messages have merit, but they didn't get any traction because most people weren't already convinced, not because they were ignored by the media.
If the media has a blame, it's that they've shortened our attention spans to where we won't give a canidate time to convince us of anything we aren't already convinced of.
Which... when you think about it... is much more depressing than them intentionally sidelining a particular canidate.
Are you sure they didn't marginalize themselves? I would submit that Ron Paul was largely ignored because most voters weren't picking up what he was laying down, and he didn't have the skills to convince them.
Kucinich likewise is unable to be very convincing. Whenever I read about something he's doing, I agree with him in spirit, but he's not being at all realistic. He's still trying to impeach Bush. I think Bush should be impeached, but it's not going to happen. To keep doing it looks more like masturbation than leading. To be honest, that doesn't just make him a bad canidate, it also would have made him a bad president. Politicians have to be realistic and willing to compromise to get anything done.
I don't know much about Alan Keys, but my impression was that he was too conservative even for the republican party.
So is it that Obama and McCain are the corporate pick or the sane pick?
I'd point out that big corporations liking a canidate and giving sizeable campaign contributions does not mean they picked him. In fact, corporations often give money to both canidates in a race, reguardless of their platform. Many want to buy favor, not promote specific politics. If a canidate looks like he has a good chance of winning (aka a nominee for an election from one of the two parties) then typically he gets money from such corporations as long as he doesn't actively say "Don't buy Coke" or something like that.
(Again, there are plenty of exceptions, some whole industries, like health insurance companies)
I think it's easy to confuse corporations giving money to a politician who is going to win with corporations acting as king-makers, especially for those people whose interests are so far from the mainstream that they don't see a difference between the two parties. Those of us who are more center see the two parties as being very different, and corporate support of both is non-specific.
woooooosh. Didn't realize there were so many fans of gummy bears!
Gellatin is used probably because when you boil it it becomes denatured and can bind with other mollecules to make a net, similar to albumin from eggs. GFP can denature too, but that destroys it's structure and fluroescence. I'm not sure it would congeal the same, but it wouldn't still glow.
It's suprising because things like this are the exception, not the norm.
We clearly don't live in a police state, if we did, this would not make the news, this would not make any news, just as police using fingerprinting to identify suspects does not make the news. Not to minimize the dangers of the errosion of freedom, but let's please keep it realistic, not wild-eyed "the sky is falling" or rampant cynicism endemic to/.
If the US is a police state, then can you name a single country that isn't? If you can't, then what the hell is the point of the term?
Those idiots should be a lot more worried about violent passivists, not non-violent activists. Granted, the passivists don't do much, but when they do it's a lot bloodier.
More obvious insight which should get me some money somehow: even if a college is ranked #1, you MIGHT get a better educational experience somewhere else!
Well, they didn't patent the GFP mollecule. I think Tsien may have patented some derivatives that he developed which aren't found in nature, but the original GFP is not.
Of course, the south koreans who made those cats were not the people awarded the prize, nor were they the people who discovered or developed GFP, so if anyone's getting an ignoble out of it, it won't be the three who got the prize. Someone else who uses your discovery to stupid ends doesn't make your discovery ridiculous. There are plenty of very valuable studies that have used GFP which make up for it 1000 to 1.
As always, it might require a subscription to verify this, but there are no attached video files. The authors apperantly have not put the pictures together into movie files, which is strange. Anyway, this is one case where the summary is not at fault: there simply are no videos.
There was a project with the goal to make a mouse that expressed a variety of different fluorophores in it's neurons so that you could tell one neuron from another, watch active processes, and so on.
I think some of Tsien's work is more interesting, I believe he's made some fluorophores that you can turn on and off, or convert to different colors to identify specific cells, in addition to some dyes which fluoresce only in the presence of calcium.
They made glowing jellyfish! The next prize they will receive will probably be the Ig Nobel Prize in Biology!
They who?!? God? The jellyfish was where the protein was discovered, then they cloned it and co-opted it for use in other things. You have it 100% backwards.
But the fact that he's pleading not guilty is going to give this whole thing legs both in the court and in the media.
What media are we talking about? Knoxnews.com? Yeah, I'm going to hate to read about this instead of my normal "Dave the weather guy's thoughts on life."
If you think tampering with email is small potatoes, you just got your wake-up call.
Just so we're clear, we are talking about yahoomail tampering being no small potatoes legally speaking, when a VP canidate is the target. Hacking into my sister's e-mail account is another story, both in terms of whether or not it's going to be prosecuted and in terms of impact.
Also, how many people have opinions as to the significance of e-mail tampering? I haven't ever thought of it as small or large potatoes prior to this.
We turn around and do the same thing to them though. Guitar hero 3 without the guitar apperantly is going to go on sale for the first time tomorrow in japan, and the package with the guitar only came out in march, about 5 months after it was released over here.
Unfortunately, everyone often does it to australia.
If the job requires integrity and trust, which many jobs do, how a prospective employee behaves is very important.
The employers who check social networking sites aren't doing that, they're for whatever reason screening out people who are documented using alcohol in college.
That's true for biology and is undoubtedly true for physics as well. The bar is high for papers, a lot of your results by themselves prove nothing but strongly indicate things, confirming or denying your ideas. You can "know" something years before you can say it's true, and although that can be misleading, a lot of times your colleagues will be very interested in it.
Still, an online repository of papers is good for somewhat current stuff, full details, and getting information faster in many cases.
It's not a legitimate reason. Disliking a game because it's popular is just as lame as disliking a band because they are popular. If you don't like guitar hero because you don't like it, that's one thing, but if you don't like it "because it's a fad," you are missing out on what is actually a great game.
And I have to say this, learning to play guitar takes no more talent than it does to learn to play guitar hero, just more time. For proof, look to the many talentless idiots who play guitar and troll on slashdot.
Exactly! Why the $#@) would nintendo switch over to the Dark Side on this issue now?!? I bought the original DS shortly after launch and bought a lite a few years later and this is how nintendo rewards me? While traveling international it's great as is, there are also some great games that won't be released in other countries due to licensing and "they won't be that into it" reasons. Electroplankton, jump superstars...
The one -potential- justification I could see is the piracy that goes on, they sell cartridges that allow you to download and store any DS games you want onto a flash-based system apperantly. Region locking might cut down on that... for a day or two.
Really dissapointing. Has the big N not seen what happens with computer game piracy and DRM? Once again, legitimate users are the only ones who get the shaft. If I do get a DSi, the first (and possibly only) thing for it I will be buying is a piracy device.
I hate to use a slashdot meme, and I'm not making the argument that just because something has no apperant real ramifications, it's not a serious issue, but what's so bad about pictures of you being online? You already have your images taken hundreds of times a week, anytime you walk past a bank, into almost any store, whenever you use an ATM.
If you're not famous, the only people who are interested in pictures of you on vacation are people you already know. The one real concern I've seen is if someone posts a picture of you drinking and a prospective employer sees it. That is a concern, and a reason to detag a photo of yourself drinking. Of course, it's an extremely stupid employer who is concerned about that type of thing in the first place, and I maintain that you're better off not working there, but I also realize it's unfortunately not always that simple.
I feel like I'm missing something. Is it more than just the principle of your right to privacy and not looking bad to future employers?
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Not to mention attempts to use logic to supplant evidence. Show me that genetic diseases have increased significantly and you can start going on about de-evolution. It's far from proven that release from selective forces results in dramatic change, especially that would be observeable over just the few generations since hemophillia started being surviveable.
Again, what indication do you have that any of their messages would have resonated with a largely apathetic, willfully ignorant american public? I think their messages have merit, but they didn't get any traction because most people weren't already convinced, not because they were ignored by the media.
If the media has a blame, it's that they've shortened our attention spans to where we won't give a canidate time to convince us of anything we aren't already convinced of.
Which... when you think about it... is much more depressing than them intentionally sidelining a particular canidate.
Are you sure they didn't marginalize themselves? I would submit that Ron Paul was largely ignored because most voters weren't picking up what he was laying down, and he didn't have the skills to convince them.
Kucinich likewise is unable to be very convincing. Whenever I read about something he's doing, I agree with him in spirit, but he's not being at all realistic. He's still trying to impeach Bush. I think Bush should be impeached, but it's not going to happen. To keep doing it looks more like masturbation than leading. To be honest, that doesn't just make him a bad canidate, it also would have made him a bad president. Politicians have to be realistic and willing to compromise to get anything done.
I don't know much about Alan Keys, but my impression was that he was too conservative even for the republican party.
So is it that Obama and McCain are the corporate pick or the sane pick?
I'd point out that big corporations liking a canidate and giving sizeable campaign contributions does not mean they picked him. In fact, corporations often give money to both canidates in a race, reguardless of their platform. Many want to buy favor, not promote specific politics. If a canidate looks like he has a good chance of winning (aka a nominee for an election from one of the two parties) then typically he gets money from such corporations as long as he doesn't actively say "Don't buy Coke" or something like that.
(Again, there are plenty of exceptions, some whole industries, like health insurance companies)
I think it's easy to confuse corporations giving money to a politician who is going to win with corporations acting as king-makers, especially for those people whose interests are so far from the mainstream that they don't see a difference between the two parties. Those of us who are more center see the two parties as being very different, and corporate support of both is non-specific.
woooooosh. Didn't realize there were so many fans of gummy bears!
Gellatin is used probably because when you boil it it becomes denatured and can bind with other mollecules to make a net, similar to albumin from eggs. GFP can denature too, but that destroys it's structure and fluroescence. I'm not sure it would congeal the same, but it wouldn't still glow.
It's suprising because things like this are the exception, not the norm.
We clearly don't live in a police state, if we did, this would not make the news, this would not make any news, just as police using fingerprinting to identify suspects does not make the news. Not to minimize the dangers of the errosion of freedom, but let's please keep it realistic, not wild-eyed "the sky is falling" or rampant cynicism endemic to /.
If the US is a police state, then can you name a single country that isn't? If you can't, then what the hell is the point of the term?
Those idiots should be a lot more worried about violent passivists, not non-violent activists. Granted, the passivists don't do much, but when they do it's a lot bloodier.
More obvious insight which should get me some money somehow: even if a college is ranked #1, you MIGHT get a better educational experience somewhere else!
Where's my article and money?
Well, they didn't patent the GFP mollecule. I think Tsien may have patented some derivatives that he developed which aren't found in nature, but the original GFP is not.
Of course, the south koreans who made those cats were not the people awarded the prize, nor were they the people who discovered or developed GFP, so if anyone's getting an ignoble out of it, it won't be the three who got the prize. Someone else who uses your discovery to stupid ends doesn't make your discovery ridiculous. There are plenty of very valuable studies that have used GFP which make up for it 1000 to 1.
The actual journal article can be obtained here
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmeth.1256.html
As always, it might require a subscription to verify this, but there are no attached video files. The authors apperantly have not put the pictures together into movie files, which is strange. Anyway, this is one case where the summary is not at fault: there simply are no videos.
There was a project with the goal to make a mouse that expressed a variety of different fluorophores in it's neurons so that you could tell one neuron from another, watch active processes, and so on.
The best part is the name: the brainbow mouse
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_fluorescentneurons
http://bioephemera.com/2007/11/13/the-brainbow-mouse/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/11/06/microscope_renaissance/
I think some of Tsien's work is more interesting, I believe he's made some fluorophores that you can turn on and off, or convert to different colors to identify specific cells, in addition to some dyes which fluoresce only in the presence of calcium.
GFP is a protein, gummy bears on the other hand are completely inorganic goo.
They made glowing jellyfish! The next prize they will receive will probably be the Ig Nobel Prize in Biology!
They who?!? God? The jellyfish was where the protein was discovered, then they cloned it and co-opted it for use in other things. You have it 100% backwards.
But the fact that he's pleading not guilty is going to give this whole thing legs both in the court and in the media.
What media are we talking about? Knoxnews.com? Yeah, I'm going to hate to read about this instead of my normal "Dave the weather guy's thoughts on life."
If you think tampering with email is small potatoes, you just got your wake-up call.
Just so we're clear, we are talking about yahoomail tampering being no small potatoes legally speaking, when a VP canidate is the target. Hacking into my sister's e-mail account is another story, both in terms of whether or not it's going to be prosecuted and in terms of impact.
Also, how many people have opinions as to the significance of e-mail tampering? I haven't ever thought of it as small or large potatoes prior to this.
...Japan gets the first and best of anything...
We turn around and do the same thing to them though. Guitar hero 3 without the guitar apperantly is going to go on sale for the first time tomorrow in japan, and the package with the guitar only came out in march, about 5 months after it was released over here.
Unfortunately, everyone often does it to australia.
If the job requires integrity and trust, which many jobs do, how a prospective employee behaves is very important.
The employers who check social networking sites aren't doing that, they're for whatever reason screening out people who are documented using alcohol in college.
No... no you really didn't. :-P
That's true for biology and is undoubtedly true for physics as well. The bar is high for papers, a lot of your results by themselves prove nothing but strongly indicate things, confirming or denying your ideas. You can "know" something years before you can say it's true, and although that can be misleading, a lot of times your colleagues will be very interested in it.
Still, an online repository of papers is good for somewhat current stuff, full details, and getting information faster in many cases.
It's not a legitimate reason. Disliking a game because it's popular is just as lame as disliking a band because they are popular. If you don't like guitar hero because you don't like it, that's one thing, but if you don't like it "because it's a fad," you are missing out on what is actually a great game.
And I have to say this, learning to play guitar takes no more talent than it does to learn to play guitar hero, just more time. For proof, look to the many talentless idiots who play guitar and troll on slashdot.
Exactly! Why the $#@) would nintendo switch over to the Dark Side on this issue now?!? I bought the original DS shortly after launch and bought a lite a few years later and this is how nintendo rewards me? While traveling international it's great as is, there are also some great games that won't be released in other countries due to licensing and "they won't be that into it" reasons. Electroplankton, jump superstars...
The one -potential- justification I could see is the piracy that goes on, they sell cartridges that allow you to download and store any DS games you want onto a flash-based system apperantly. Region locking might cut down on that... for a day or two.
Really dissapointing. Has the big N not seen what happens with computer game piracy and DRM? Once again, legitimate users are the only ones who get the shaft. If I do get a DSi, the first (and possibly only) thing for it I will be buying is a piracy device.
I hate to use a slashdot meme, and I'm not making the argument that just because something has no apperant real ramifications, it's not a serious issue, but what's so bad about pictures of you being online? You already have your images taken hundreds of times a week, anytime you walk past a bank, into almost any store, whenever you use an ATM.
If you're not famous, the only people who are interested in pictures of you on vacation are people you already know. The one real concern I've seen is if someone posts a picture of you drinking and a prospective employer sees it. That is a concern, and a reason to detag a photo of yourself drinking. Of course, it's an extremely stupid employer who is concerned about that type of thing in the first place, and I maintain that you're better off not working there, but I also realize it's unfortunately not always that simple.
I feel like I'm missing something. Is it more than just the principle of your right to privacy and not looking bad to future employers?
Update: someone else in littlebigplanet has made a virtual XBOX 360 using just 3 red lights.
Someone has spelled out "BOOBLESS" on said virtual calculator. This comes 3 seconds after the level went public.