Whoa! not so fast. Don't you think we a pre-planning agenda framing conference call?
somebody needs to document an agenda for the meeting to establish the goals of the pre-planning agenda framing conference call, that we can have a meeting to discuss. probably need to meet in person to ensure we get it right, rather than start off on the wrong foot.
yeah, nothing like seeing a lifelong chain smoker with emphysema who is chained to an oxygen tank and can't even climb a flight of stairs at 50 years old to convince you to throw caution to the wind.
I didn't RTFA but it seems somewhat unlikely to me that the hot liquid itself directly causes cancer. Wouldn't it be more likely if some kind of thermally induced (chemical) reaction, for example with saliva, would produce carcinogenic compounds?
any constant irritant to tissue is a cancer risk; that's the mechanism behind asbestos and alcohol for instance. probably why things like aspirin show cancer prevention sometimes.
Forcing your body to replicate cells more often leads to a higher chance of a mutation - that couldn't be more obvious. The more times you attempt a clean copy, the more chances for a bad copy. I think this would apply to any case where cells are constantly being damaged and repaired (sunburn).
in the lab, one of the ways they promote tumor growth in rabbits is to just punch a hole in their ear with a hole punch.
WHO guidelines for "probable carcinogen" are somewhat different than what most organizations in the US use. The WHO puts something on the probable carcinogen list if there is evidence that the compound is at all capable of causing cancer in any dosage, regardless of whether in reality it does or does not in normal use. This makes their list somewhat longer, but less meaningful.
not sure how relevant that factoid may be here, but maybe.
i've gone through more miniusb cables than i can remember in 2 years; and not cheap gas station checkout counter ones either. same on the previous phone, but the connector got loose by the end.
anyway, i hate them.
do lightning connectors last any better?
Charging mats use about 5 watts of power, which means even if you were doing nothing but charging phones with dead batteries around the clock it would only use 40 kwh of power in a year. As far as contributing causes to the energy crisis go, that's nothing. Hand-washing one load of laundry will offset all of your energy use from charging your phone for over a month. Skipping one drive to the movies to rent something at home will offset all of your energy use for charging your cell phone for years (since one gallon of gasoline has 33kwh equivalent of energy in it).
if you live someplace with winter, half the year you welcome that 5 watts.
You're right, I was off by 3 orders of magnitude. The chart I was looking at had one column in kilotons and the next column in just tons and I read it carelessly. It's 16.5 Tons per capita in the US, which means a 10,000 ton project would cancel out the pollution of a whopping 606 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
everyone will be required to move to iceland and bury their own CO2.
... Space Patrol controls nuclear warheads in orbit around Earth, and its mission is to nuke any country that has been tempted to go to war with its neighbors.
Because nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure. (or so I've heard)
I read it first time at age 12, but forgot the ending. Then was pleasant thrilled when Inhad reread it as a MIT student.
I dont know why this was never made into a movie. The Mother Thing whom I picture as a Star Trek Horta may have been hard to do before computer F/X. They could have done it as a pixie pupput like E.T. Or Yoda.
The closest movie plot to this novel was the 1980s Last Starfighter. It was also about a bored small teen catapulted into a galatic war.
i still think "The Puppet Masters" was underrated as a movie.
>> It's explained that latinum cannot be replicated
>Which is a stupid writer cop-out, there's no good reason for it if transporter technology exists.
Speaking of early SF writers, George Smith's _Venus_Equilateral_ (1940s era)
matter duplicators and
transmittters were also defeated by a wonder-substance. Writers will ALWAYS add in
rights management to technology, because (1) it's imaginable, and (2) it adds complication.
To be a writer, you need imagination. To move a plot, you REALLY need complication....
You find a dead man without a mark on him lying next to a rock. The cause of death is immediately obvious. Explain.
The man is Superman and the rock is Kryptonite.
> It's explained that latinum cannot be replicated
Which is a stupid writer cop-out, there's no good reason for it if transporter technology exists.
Kind of like Data being unable to use contractions. No good reason for it, even if Dr. Soong 'designed' it into his programming intentionally, brains are necessarily malleable.
if transporter technology exists, there's probably no reason you couldn't alter it a bit to make unlimited multiple copies of Boba Fett or something.
Suppose you want to go to a concert, in person, rather than watching it in your personal holodeck or whatever. There are a limited number of seats. Who gets those seats? That's easy: tickets cost money.
That exact situation is a major plot thread in Iain M Banks' Look to Windward. Banks' "Culture" is a galactic post-scarcity civilisation (and far more technologically advanced than the Federation in Star Trek), but that doesn't mean that they don't need money.
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Holy shit... so this is what it's like if you mix Mad Men with Mean Girls. The war of passive aggressive project managers.
Girly Men!
Whoa! not so fast. Don't you think we a pre-planning agenda framing conference call?
somebody needs to document an agenda for the meeting to establish the goals of the pre-planning agenda framing conference call, that we can have a meeting to discuss. probably need to meet in person to ensure we get it right, rather than start off on the wrong foot.
yeah, nothing like seeing a lifelong chain smoker with emphysema who is chained to an oxygen tank and can't even climb a flight of stairs at 50 years old to convince you to throw caution to the wind.
If there weren't also benefits to hot drinks. They are pleasant and evolution tends to tie pleasure to desirable traits.
but why don't animals like them?
I didn't RTFA but it seems somewhat unlikely to me that the hot liquid itself directly causes cancer. Wouldn't it be more likely if some kind of thermally induced (chemical) reaction, for example with saliva, would produce carcinogenic compounds?
any constant irritant to tissue is a cancer risk; that's the mechanism behind asbestos and alcohol for instance. probably why things like aspirin show cancer prevention sometimes.
Forcing your body to replicate cells more often leads to a higher chance of a mutation - that couldn't be more obvious. The more times you attempt a clean copy, the more chances for a bad copy. I think this would apply to any case where cells are constantly being damaged and repaired (sunburn).
in the lab, one of the ways they promote tumor growth in rabbits is to just punch a hole in their ear with a hole punch.
When there is a perfectly good SI measurement for Temperature?
If you use that socialist european temperature, then the terrorists have won.
Hooray! For a while I was living in fear that my cancer was going to cause cancer!
kids today! when we were your age, we had cancer of the cancer! And we were grateful. We loved it!
WHO guidelines for "probable carcinogen" are somewhat different than what most organizations in the US use. The WHO puts something on the probable carcinogen list if there is evidence that the compound is at all capable of causing cancer in any dosage, regardless of whether in reality it does or does not in normal use. This makes their list somewhat longer, but less meaningful. not sure how relevant that factoid may be here, but maybe.
that's only because youtube won't let people post porn
our new Intel Management Engine overlords.
Connector wears out.
i've gone through more miniusb cables than i can remember in 2 years; and not cheap gas station checkout counter ones either. same on the previous phone, but the connector got loose by the end. anyway, i hate them. do lightning connectors last any better?
Charging mats use about 5 watts of power, which means even if you were doing nothing but charging phones with dead batteries around the clock it would only use 40 kwh of power in a year. As far as contributing causes to the energy crisis go, that's nothing. Hand-washing one load of laundry will offset all of your energy use from charging your phone for over a month. Skipping one drive to the movies to rent something at home will offset all of your energy use for charging your cell phone for years (since one gallon of gasoline has 33kwh equivalent of energy in it).
if you live someplace with winter, half the year you welcome that 5 watts.
the litigant [placed] a container, known to her to be filled with a dangerous liquid, between her legs while trying to operate a moving vehicle.
WTF? She was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car!
Having received life-threatening third-degree burns and undergone a skin graft procedure, she asked for $20,000 to cover the medical expenses.
if she hadn't, her medical insurer would have.
they could have paid off the wounded employees $30k each and come out ahead, with no bad press.
You're right, I was off by 3 orders of magnitude. The chart I was looking at had one column in kilotons and the next column in just tons and I read it carelessly. It's 16.5 Tons per capita in the US, which means a 10,000 ton project would cancel out the pollution of a whopping 606 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
everyone will be required to move to iceland and bury their own CO2.
tranny scum fuck off and die
doo dah
doo dah
... Space Patrol controls nuclear warheads in orbit around Earth, and its mission is to nuke any country that has been tempted to go to war with its neighbors.
Because nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure. (or so I've heard)
wouldn't work well for civil wars.
I read it first time at age 12, but forgot the ending. Then was pleasant thrilled when Inhad reread it as a MIT student. I dont know why this was never made into a movie. The Mother Thing whom I picture as a Star Trek Horta may have been hard to do before computer F/X. They could have done it as a pixie pupput like E.T. Or Yoda. The closest movie plot to this novel was the 1980s Last Starfighter. It was also about a bored small teen catapulted into a galatic war.
i still think "The Puppet Masters" was underrated as a movie.
Better known as the guy who wrote books about old Gary Stus, young Gary Stus and lots of Mary Sues all having sex with each other.
there was a lot of SF in the 50s that explored taboo sexual topics.
You forget 71% of Democrats are comfortable electing a criminal
http://www.rasmussenreports.co...
republicans prefer to have their president commit the crimes when in office.
i can keep this up as long as you can.
Democrat or Republican does anyone think it's a great idea to let Hillary or Trump have control of enough nuclear weaponry to annihilate the planet ?
Space Patrol as a concept may be looking really good in January.
they don't really have control, of course. the folks sitting at the consoles with the keys have control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Speaking of early SF writers, George Smith's _Venus_Equilateral_ (1940s era) matter duplicators and transmittters were also defeated by a wonder-substance. Writers will ALWAYS add in rights management to technology, because (1) it's imaginable, and (2) it adds complication.
To be a writer, you need imagination. To move a plot, you REALLY need complication....
You find a dead man without a mark on him lying next to a rock. The cause of death is immediately obvious. Explain. The man is Superman and the rock is Kryptonite.
> It's explained that latinum cannot be replicated
Which is a stupid writer cop-out, there's no good reason for it if transporter technology exists.
Kind of like Data being unable to use contractions. No good reason for it, even if Dr. Soong 'designed' it into his programming intentionally, brains are necessarily malleable.
if transporter technology exists, there's probably no reason you couldn't alter it a bit to make unlimited multiple copies of Boba Fett or something.
Suppose you want to go to a concert, in person, rather than watching it in your personal holodeck or whatever. There are a limited number of seats. Who gets those seats? That's easy: tickets cost money.
That exact situation is a major plot thread in Iain M Banks' Look to Windward. Banks' "Culture" is a galactic post-scarcity civilisation (and far more technologically advanced than the Federation in Star Trek), but that doesn't mean that they don't need money.
also, star trek uniforms don't have pockets.