Yes... you are right on the receptors. But he was on the right track with the police lights in a way. They are blue and red because sometimes it's easier to see blue and sometimes red. I think the theory I heard was that at night, red shows up better. In the day, blue shows up better. Anybody know for sure? I do know that in Team Fortress 2, the frigging blue guys look like they are red at a distance and it gets me killed a lot!
Regarding those links- if all the ways hemp is better than cotton and petroleum is true, that is great. However, I don't think many serious minded people will believe much of them since the guy behind those sites is obviously a big pothead. Anybody have some more authoritative links on the conspiracy between outlawing hemp and giving money to the oil lords?
The theories I heard on this via some TV shows is that b/c crocs and their kin live in super "dirty" swampy water in many habitats + the chances of getting hurt were high for different reasons (fighting, whatever), the only way to survive was to have super immune systems. Get a cut and submerge it in a swamp for about 30 seconds to see how long you avoid infection. It was just evolution at work the way they presented it.
Hey, if you live in the US, you are never allowed to complain about anything b/c you did it. Game over.
Seriously though, he has a few good points. I personally don't mind paying an extra 40 cents for the free ranging chicken eggs and such b/c for one it tastes better and for two I'm not a huge fan of torture... and I'm fairly sure the regular chickens are pretty much tortured. I love to eat my meat, but damn, don't torture the pathetic things for months and months.
I would have to agree. I watched the speech in its entirety and overall, it was basically saying that it sucks that people have problems with race, there may be some reasons for that that we need to deal with, and we need to make progress to get past race issues to get on to more important ones.
In no way shape or form did he act like it was OK to talk crap about another race. He said he totally disagrees with the crazy pastor guy.
Seriously, read or watch all the details on anything that might sway your opinion very much or sway other people's opinion very much. I'm a 30 something white dude from a small town in the deep south- been seeing racism against black people in overt and subtle ways since I was a child, and despite any negative racial beliefs I've been exposed to, Obama has definitely got my attention and very probably my vote. His being "black" doesn't matter from any logical (people are people) or ignorant (he's black, he's going to screw over white ppl!- let me be clear, I don't believe this for a minute anyway) angle that I am aware of... the rest of what makes up his shot at the president... his goals, his attitude toward the environment, his views on super big greedy companies, privacy and other internet related rights, what he generally believes in, his lack of being a typical slippery lying politician... all that leads me to want to vote for this guy. I'm sure he's got some usual politician flaws (I've heard of maybe two specific minor things), but his general atmosphere is 100 times greater than most I've ever seen.
Strangely, the other two candidates don't seem terrible either. I think all the politicians got together and realized how bad the US feels towards Bush and got only candidates that were as different as Bush as possible. A good speaker. A black man. A woman. A renegade Republican. Not sure if I should be mad that they are "playing us" or be happy b/c they listened.
It's rather demeaning to say small town people aren't geeky enough to know what they are doing. Stop measuring people by the length of their bad haircut or how thick their glasses are. Geeks and smart people in general come in all shapes and sizes. Let's not forget, with the internet, even the most remote people have access to tons and tons of information, etc.
There were once a couple of possums who lost a friend on a human highway. And the story goes like this:
Joe Possum says, "I'm fucking convinced the highway contains some kind of magical monsters that kill you when you cross. I don't care what the hell you say, Bob, but after the shit I heard last night and seeing Frank's body... I'm not touching that black rock highway of death. I'm telling you, the monsters are gonna kill us! In another week, when Mary is done packing, we're moving out of this part of town."
Smug in his logic and experience, Bob Possum responded, "Bullshit. There are no magical monsters, and I know it for a fact. Not one week ago I was out there crossing that road at night... and I heard the loud noises and saw the scary lights myself, and I didn't die. Hell I was so scared I just froze in place and closed my eyes... the sound was all around me for a split second, then it was gone. Look at me, I'm fine. No, what happened to Frank was what happens to any possum runnin' around looking for trouble. It was either one of the thugs he screwed over or one of those devilish coyotes. Fuck those dudes, they are the ones killing everybody."
The night before the big move, Joe wakes to a horrible scream. Scared and nauseated but needing to know, he runs out to the road... and his innards clinch when he sees his friend Bob in his death throes.
Sobbing and gasping for air, but frustrated at his friends' lack of caution, Joe exclaims, "God damn you Bob, I told you not to fuck with the mother fucking monsters! But you wouldn't believe me. Damnit Bob, can you hear me? Is there anything I can do for you? Anything to say in these last moments of your short sweet life, man?"
As he moves beyond pain, Bob manages to get one last breath, smiles and says, "Yeah,... find that coyote with the missing front tooth,... and kill his ass. I told you it was coyotes.... Nobody deserves a drivers license less than those bastards."
And there you have it. Logic wins over superstition once again!
Yeah, version 12 is out... but after the disaster that was 11d I'm afraid. I haven't gone to them about fixing the specific bug, but I imagine going to 12 is going to be the best option. For now, I'm waiting.
Screw Google and city life. I'm moving back to the boondocks where nosy neighbors have to go to a bit of effort to spy on ya. Hmm, but then the gossip mongers can ruin your day. Screw it, I'm moving to Japan where it's so crowded you have no privacy anyway... but I won't know they are talking about me b/c my Japanese is so poor. Problem solved!
Yeah, BackupExec was the stuff. Now after an update from Symantec, the bloody version has known bugs that kills the way I archive terminated users' email accounts (if you disable a user, it breaks the backup). And then they have yet another big update... I'm not touching it for as long as I can wait.
So the question is, what to use instead of BackupExec??? CA's backup software was great but turned to crap around the year 2000.
This was sorely needed. As convenient as youtube is, the quality is just atrocious. And thank God for firefox builtin spellcheck to help me get atrocious spelled correctly (despite getting three words in this sentence spelling wrong). Laziness wins sometimes.
Every flight I've been on, we board the plane in a big rush... then sit for no less than 10 minutes waiting for.... ?? ?
And I've been on many small American Eagle flights that would seem to be subject to the small/frequent/short flights. What are we waiting on for those 10 minutes? Are there some fueling and safety checks that take longer to do than boarding? If so, what is this article about?
Keep those peons working as much as possible. Don't worry, the "economy" benefits from it. Hell, look at those crazy Europeans with their 6 weeks of vacations for 20 year olds. Insane! Obviously their economy is going to bring them into total starvation for every person in their countries. What did you say? The Euro is killing the dollar? Well there must be some mistake... surely.
The "speed problem" is just 100% about luring people into believing we need the BS laws that screw over the free aspect of the internet. Speed my ass. Here's what we need to do:
1. Banks can't allow users to do anything online until the users (clients) pass a state sponsored phishing test. It'll be a Bank Internet Drivers License. If you don't present it to your bank, your online aspects of your banking are disabled.
2. Banks can't do anything online until they pass the same sort of test, or hire knowledgeable people and give them power.
At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm still at 100% of the forwards from over 30 or 40 employees at my current and last job have been debunked as well. The funny thing is, they really DO know it's fake... or otherwise why would they forward it to us? But somewhere in their sick mind, they say to themselves "It must not be fake, it must not be fake" until we point them in the right direction.
Is this the sheep syndrome? Or is it the win the lottery syndrome? Either way, people need to stop being so gullible.
I don't know anything about this fellow... but I need to make one comment. Isn't the idea of having to put everything in a video as opposed to actual text (with less jargon and more direct info)... isn't that kind of a cheesy political tactic to avoid hard facts and try to sway people with "charisma"? I mean, if he's a good guy, I understand he needs to use whatever cheesy methods he can to keep up with the bad guys... but I sure hope he also makes things "real" and spelled out.
In other news, lens makers find it increasingly hard to make perfectly precise lenses for telescopes. Lenscraftsman man is even quoted as saying, "Slightly wonky lenses can lead to slightly wonky images".
Thank you! Epigenetics is the one I was thinking about! I had forgotten the bit about transgenerational inheritance and all the other bits and pieces listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics. The siRNA and miRNA is news to me... very interesting.
With no seatbelt on, you may hit someone else in the same car in a wreck... which would really suck for them (me!). My friends and brother get this speech every time they try to get away with no seatbelt in my car. I don't care if they want to kill themselves, but they aren't taking me out with their 200 pound projectile body!
Everybody is being a smartass about this warning stuff, but the point I got from the subject is that companies want to suck your time out of you so they make more money and you have less life. And you should be aware of it. That's a "duh" moment obviously, but sometimes you don't realize they are trying to fuck you till it's too late.
I have a blackberry for work. It stays securely in my desk at all times unless I am traveling. My regular cell phone... yeah OK, i stays with me, but I don't get many work calls. It's there for "just in case" really, and I can use it for personal usage as well so it helps my life more than hurts it.
I semi-recently saw a TV program about "meta-geneticis" that claimed to answer the question as to why identical twins had differences and some got diseases, as well as several things relating to which genes are expressed or repressed. Supposedly meta-genetics (spelled?) is about which genes get switched on or off... and how environment affects that. The big example was an experiment with mice... one set of mice had a "mean" mom that didn't lick them (not enough nurturing), and they (if I recall) got really fat and their coat turned a weird color. The other set of mice had a mom that licked the tar out of them, and they repressed their bad gene that made them fat blondes. The fat ones then grew up to lick their children less, etc.
They made the point that it was much much harder to understand/map meta-genetics than just genetics as it required most of the genetic code for a particular species to be understood before we could find the genes that were responsible for meta-genetics.
My problem is I can't find anything on wikipedia or via a google search on this "science". Am I spelling it correctly, or is it a fake science or what? Any help on this is much appreciated. It is obviously *not* related to metagenesis:
http://www.answers.com/metagenesis?cat=technology
I like the point they were making that it'd last "forever" and gets better with age... so if you put yellow on it now and it got more yellow after 10 years, then you'd just end up with a crappy too yellow lamp.
My thought is that is was much related to the spin. I mean, if you could slowly spin a generator, you'd get power for as long as it would spin, right? I hate the friggin know it all idiots that post about how impossible it is, based on their physics 101 class in school. DUH, if your physics teacher knew how to make a revolutionary machine, he wouldn't be teaching your sorry butt.
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Yes... you are right on the receptors. But he was on the right track with the police lights in a way. They are blue and red because sometimes it's easier to see blue and sometimes red. I think the theory I heard was that at night, red shows up better. In the day, blue shows up better. Anybody know for sure? I do know that in Team Fortress 2, the frigging blue guys look like they are red at a distance and it gets me killed a lot!
Regarding those links- if all the ways hemp is better than cotton and petroleum is true, that is great. However, I don't think many serious minded people will believe much of them since the guy behind those sites is obviously a big pothead. Anybody have some more authoritative links on the conspiracy between outlawing hemp and giving money to the oil lords?
The theories I heard on this via some TV shows is that b/c crocs and their kin live in super "dirty" swampy water in many habitats + the chances of getting hurt were high for different reasons (fighting, whatever), the only way to survive was to have super immune systems. Get a cut and submerge it in a swamp for about 30 seconds to see how long you avoid infection. It was just evolution at work the way they presented it.
Hey, if you live in the US, you are never allowed to complain about anything b/c you did it. Game over. Seriously though, he has a few good points. I personally don't mind paying an extra 40 cents for the free ranging chicken eggs and such b/c for one it tastes better and for two I'm not a huge fan of torture... and I'm fairly sure the regular chickens are pretty much tortured. I love to eat my meat, but damn, don't torture the pathetic things for months and months.
Agreed. Lynch's version did it for me by a long shot. It was more eerie, freaky, and charismatic.
I would have to agree. I watched the speech in its entirety and overall, it was basically saying that it sucks that people have problems with race, there may be some reasons for that that we need to deal with, and we need to make progress to get past race issues to get on to more important ones. In no way shape or form did he act like it was OK to talk crap about another race. He said he totally disagrees with the crazy pastor guy. Seriously, read or watch all the details on anything that might sway your opinion very much or sway other people's opinion very much. I'm a 30 something white dude from a small town in the deep south- been seeing racism against black people in overt and subtle ways since I was a child, and despite any negative racial beliefs I've been exposed to, Obama has definitely got my attention and very probably my vote. His being "black" doesn't matter from any logical (people are people) or ignorant (he's black, he's going to screw over white ppl!- let me be clear, I don't believe this for a minute anyway) angle that I am aware of... the rest of what makes up his shot at the president... his goals, his attitude toward the environment, his views on super big greedy companies, privacy and other internet related rights, what he generally believes in, his lack of being a typical slippery lying politician... all that leads me to want to vote for this guy. I'm sure he's got some usual politician flaws (I've heard of maybe two specific minor things), but his general atmosphere is 100 times greater than most I've ever seen. Strangely, the other two candidates don't seem terrible either. I think all the politicians got together and realized how bad the US feels towards Bush and got only candidates that were as different as Bush as possible. A good speaker. A black man. A woman. A renegade Republican. Not sure if I should be mad that they are "playing us" or be happy b/c they listened.
It's rather demeaning to say small town people aren't geeky enough to know what they are doing. Stop measuring people by the length of their bad haircut or how thick their glasses are. Geeks and smart people in general come in all shapes and sizes. Let's not forget, with the internet, even the most remote people have access to tons and tons of information, etc.
There were once a couple of possums who lost a friend on a human highway. And the story goes like this:
Joe Possum says, "I'm fucking convinced the highway contains some kind of magical monsters that kill you when you cross. I don't care what the hell you say, Bob, but after the shit I heard last night and seeing Frank's body... I'm not touching that black rock highway of death. I'm telling you, the monsters are gonna kill us! In another week, when Mary is done packing, we're moving out of this part of town."
Smug in his logic and experience, Bob Possum responded, "Bullshit. There are no magical monsters, and I know it for a fact. Not one week ago I was out there crossing that road at night... and I heard the loud noises and saw the scary lights myself, and I didn't die. Hell I was so scared I just froze in place and closed my eyes... the sound was all around me for a split second, then it was gone. Look at me, I'm fine. No, what happened to Frank was what happens to any possum runnin' around looking for trouble. It was either one of the thugs he screwed over or one of those devilish coyotes. Fuck those dudes, they are the ones killing everybody."
The night before the big move, Joe wakes to a horrible scream. Scared and nauseated but needing to know, he runs out to the road... and his innards clinch when he sees his friend Bob in his death throes.
Sobbing and gasping for air, but frustrated at his friends' lack of caution, Joe exclaims, "God damn you Bob, I told you not to fuck with the mother fucking monsters! But you wouldn't believe me. Damnit Bob, can you hear me? Is there anything I can do for you? Anything to say in these last moments of your short sweet life, man?"
As he moves beyond pain, Bob manages to get one last breath, smiles and says, "Yeah,... find that coyote with the missing front tooth,... and kill his ass. I told you it was coyotes.... Nobody deserves a drivers license less than those bastards."
And there you have it. Logic wins over superstition once again!
Yeah, version 12 is out... but after the disaster that was 11d I'm afraid. I haven't gone to them about fixing the specific bug, but I imagine going to 12 is going to be the best option. For now, I'm waiting.
Screw Google and city life. I'm moving back to the boondocks where nosy neighbors have to go to a bit of effort to spy on ya. Hmm, but then the gossip mongers can ruin your day. Screw it, I'm moving to Japan where it's so crowded you have no privacy anyway... but I won't know they are talking about me b/c my Japanese is so poor. Problem solved!
Yeah, BackupExec was the stuff. Now after an update from Symantec, the bloody version has known bugs that kills the way I archive terminated users' email accounts (if you disable a user, it breaks the backup). And then they have yet another big update... I'm not touching it for as long as I can wait. So the question is, what to use instead of BackupExec??? CA's backup software was great but turned to crap around the year 2000.
This was sorely needed. As convenient as youtube is, the quality is just atrocious. And thank God for firefox builtin spellcheck to help me get atrocious spelled correctly (despite getting three words in this sentence spelling wrong). Laziness wins sometimes.
Every flight I've been on, we board the plane in a big rush... then sit for no less than 10 minutes waiting for.... ?? ? And I've been on many small American Eagle flights that would seem to be subject to the small/frequent/short flights. What are we waiting on for those 10 minutes? Are there some fueling and safety checks that take longer to do than boarding? If so, what is this article about?
Keep those peons working as much as possible. Don't worry, the "economy" benefits from it. Hell, look at those crazy Europeans with their 6 weeks of vacations for 20 year olds. Insane! Obviously their economy is going to bring them into total starvation for every person in their countries. What did you say? The Euro is killing the dollar? Well there must be some mistake... surely.
The "speed problem" is just 100% about luring people into believing we need the BS laws that screw over the free aspect of the internet. Speed my ass. Here's what we need to do: 1. Banks can't allow users to do anything online until the users (clients) pass a state sponsored phishing test. It'll be a Bank Internet Drivers License. If you don't present it to your bank, your online aspects of your banking are disabled. 2. Banks can't do anything online until they pass the same sort of test, or hire knowledgeable people and give them power.
At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm still at 100% of the forwards from over 30 or 40 employees at my current and last job have been debunked as well. The funny thing is, they really DO know it's fake... or otherwise why would they forward it to us? But somewhere in their sick mind, they say to themselves "It must not be fake, it must not be fake" until we point them in the right direction. Is this the sheep syndrome? Or is it the win the lottery syndrome? Either way, people need to stop being so gullible.
Big ridiculously rich companies (and their friends and sub companies) have a cap on how many patents they can have. Period.
I don't know anything about this fellow... but I need to make one comment. Isn't the idea of having to put everything in a video as opposed to actual text (with less jargon and more direct info)... isn't that kind of a cheesy political tactic to avoid hard facts and try to sway people with "charisma"? I mean, if he's a good guy, I understand he needs to use whatever cheesy methods he can to keep up with the bad guys... but I sure hope he also makes things "real" and spelled out.
In other news, lens makers find it increasingly hard to make perfectly precise lenses for telescopes. Lenscraftsman man is even quoted as saying, "Slightly wonky lenses can lead to slightly wonky images".
Thank you! Epigenetics is the one I was thinking about! I had forgotten the bit about transgenerational inheritance and all the other bits and pieces listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics. The siRNA and miRNA is news to me... very interesting.
With no seatbelt on, you may hit someone else in the same car in a wreck... which would really suck for them (me!). My friends and brother get this speech every time they try to get away with no seatbelt in my car. I don't care if they want to kill themselves, but they aren't taking me out with their 200 pound projectile body!
Everybody is being a smartass about this warning stuff, but the point I got from the subject is that companies want to suck your time out of you so they make more money and you have less life. And you should be aware of it. That's a "duh" moment obviously, but sometimes you don't realize they are trying to fuck you till it's too late. I have a blackberry for work. It stays securely in my desk at all times unless I am traveling. My regular cell phone... yeah OK, i stays with me, but I don't get many work calls. It's there for "just in case" really, and I can use it for personal usage as well so it helps my life more than hurts it.
I semi-recently saw a TV program about "meta-geneticis" that claimed to answer the question as to why identical twins had differences and some got diseases, as well as several things relating to which genes are expressed or repressed. Supposedly meta-genetics (spelled?) is about which genes get switched on or off... and how environment affects that. The big example was an experiment with mice... one set of mice had a "mean" mom that didn't lick them (not enough nurturing), and they (if I recall) got really fat and their coat turned a weird color. The other set of mice had a mom that licked the tar out of them, and they repressed their bad gene that made them fat blondes. The fat ones then grew up to lick their children less, etc. They made the point that it was much much harder to understand/map meta-genetics than just genetics as it required most of the genetic code for a particular species to be understood before we could find the genes that were responsible for meta-genetics. My problem is I can't find anything on wikipedia or via a google search on this "science". Am I spelling it correctly, or is it a fake science or what? Any help on this is much appreciated. It is obviously *not* related to metagenesis: http://www.answers.com/metagenesis?cat=technology
I like the point they were making that it'd last "forever" and gets better with age... so if you put yellow on it now and it got more yellow after 10 years, then you'd just end up with a crappy too yellow lamp.
My thought is that is was much related to the spin. I mean, if you could slowly spin a generator, you'd get power for as long as it would spin, right? I hate the friggin know it all idiots that post about how impossible it is, based on their physics 101 class in school. DUH, if your physics teacher knew how to make a revolutionary machine, he wouldn't be teaching your sorry butt.