I don't like Epson's color printers (at least the Stylus 600s) because they do not have separate color and black cartridges like the Canon does. They also stop printing completely if you do not use them for over a month. (Running cleaning cycles do not fix the problem. New cartridge does not fix the problem.)
For laser printers, I have the Samsung ML-1200. I bought it at BestBuy for $130, and have never had a problem with it. (Well, once, I kept on getting an error message that I couldn't fix. Turns out that I left the printer OPEN after cleaning the internals.) My model is obsolete already, but it is really fast and works perfectly with Linux since it is PS compatible. I have printed over a thousand pages with the original cartridge. Toner save mode is just as readable as final mode.
Some viruses indeed are DNA-based. Some are RNA-based. AIDS is not a DNA-type virus in the traditional sense. Rather, it stores DNA that is converted to DNA in the host by something it carries called reverse transcriptase. Hence, it belongs in the category of "retrovirus". This is important because many AIDS drug target RT, since it does not appear in the human body in a signicant fashion. (I am pretty sure. Someone prove me wrong!)
The structure of DNA has been crucial to the discovery of many drugs and medical processes. It is just that the average Joe doesn't realize that the structure of DNA was used in the creation of the drug. Consider recombinant insulin. Before its creation in the late eighties, diabetics did not have a cheap source of insulin and so suffered horribly. DNA recombination techniques allowed this advance to happen. Also, Cipro works by inhibiting the activity of bacterial gyrases.
The board of trustees of a publicly traded company do not necessarily have to do the best thing for the company's stockholders. Investors might be in it for a short term, but the company must take a longer-term view, and this may result in differences. Basically, the board just has to get an outside auditor to make sure that the deal is "fair." This has been problematic because the auditors are not always impartial (Worldcom, Enron, etc...)
A few decades ago, a Russian manned craft had a solar panel improperly extend. As a result, batteries necessary for deploying reentry chutes could not recharge. Mission Control knew that he was very likely going to die upon reentry, so they found his wife, and let them have a few minutes alone on the radio. Then they initiated reentry, which of course the cosmonaut did not survive.
I think it would have made a big difference to say goodbye.
Reading about the clandestine operations run by the Allies is always really fun. Operation XX (double-cross, get it) in particular was amazing. One man, code-named Garbo, got Hitler to believe that the entire Normandy invasion was an extensive feignt for an invasion at Calais. Hitler held back reinforcements for days.
Another squad put an abrasive in axle grease to effectively sabotage Nazi transportation.
And a radio operator was captured and forced to send Nazi messages. There was a fail-safe system in which all uncoerced messages contained a deliberate error, so that a perfect message would mean the sender was compromised. However, the people at base forgot about this protocol and kept on sending people to their deaths. Then the radio operator started to send "compromised" in parts at the end and beginning of messages but to no avail. When two POW escaped to friendly territory and warned them of the radio operator's fate, he was forced to send a message that they were in fact German spies. They were executed.
Nagasaki was not the original target. The mission was supposed to target Nagaii, but because of inclement weather that would have interfered with bomb damage assessment photos, the pilot flew onward to hit Nagasaki.
And those who were against the nuclear bombings seem to ignore the fire bombing of Tokyo quite readily...
I thought that the hype regarding the dangers of Shuttle debris was overblown until I saw a picture of a completely intact fuel tank (a large sphere) sitting on someone's lawn with the entire family gathered in front of it. That might not be the smartest place to be....
Many have written that the Space Shuttle was obsolete before its maiden voyage and that it added nothing new to our space capabilities, given the availability of relatively cheap expendable boosters. I disagree. The Space Shuttle was used many times to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, giving it newfound sight. (The HST probbaly could not be launced through ELV because of the weight and G-force restrictions of its contemporary ELV.) And in addition to resupplying the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle keeps it in the air with judicial firings of its three main engines while docked.
Lastly, the greatest service it has provided for us could likely be the telemetry it has generated over its useful life. Imagine the tremendous stresses bourne by the craft on ascent and reentry, and the conditions it must weather up there in orbit for extended periods of time. These informations could be used towards the next space plane. Because of the Space Shuttle, there will be much less uncertainties of how things will react in these conditions.
Yes, perhaps recent uses of the Space Shuttle have been useless. But it has extended our space access capabilities as well has broadened the horizons of our knowledge.
A fearless soldier would be a tremendous asset. Sometimes doing the "right" thing (as defined by military strategy) may also be the most fear-inducing thing. For example, when under enemy machinegun fire, troops are supposed to keep moving so they are not pinned in and come under artillery attack. How many people would actually keep moving while under heavy machine-gun fire? This pill could actually save (American GI) lives if soldiers are not paralyzed by fear and can actually use their training effectively.
I just wanted to point out a contradiction in your argument. You said that American troops are made to check their weapons when entering hospitals to prevent a LOAC violation. So presumably, unarmed militants are not LOAC violations. Then you go on to say that an unarmed terrorist leader sitting in an apartment building was a violation of LOAC and thus Israel was justified in dropping a thousand pound bomb into a populated building.
To be frank, I don't care either way about the Israel-Palestine issue, but I just want to take faulty logic to task.
In the last Gulf War, most of the precision ordinance was laser-guided. Lasers are very problematic because they are scattered by fog, mist, smoke, and dust. The GPS-guided munitions that are presumably going to be used in any upcoming war use radio signals that do not have this problem. Instead, it seems as though they will be jammed. The Small-Diameter Bomb project being pursued by Boeing is going to use a new GPS system that will be more robust against jamming.
Also, one can argue that thousands of warheads were necessary. The Russians had many, many warheads, too. Whoever lost superiority would be vulnerable to a first-strike that knocked out all missiles accurate enough to retaliate against armored silos.
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I don't like Epson's color printers (at least the Stylus 600s) because they do not have separate color and black cartridges like the Canon does. They also stop printing completely if you do not use them for over a month. (Running cleaning cycles do not fix the problem. New cartridge does not fix the problem.)
For laser printers, I have the Samsung ML-1200. I bought it at BestBuy for $130, and have never had a problem with it. (Well, once, I kept on getting an error message that I couldn't fix. Turns out that I left the printer OPEN after cleaning the internals.) My model is obsolete already, but it is really fast and works perfectly with Linux since it is PS compatible. I have printed over a thousand pages with the original cartridge. Toner save mode is just as readable as final mode.
Some viruses indeed are DNA-based. Some are RNA-based. AIDS is not a DNA-type virus in the traditional sense. Rather, it stores DNA that is converted to DNA in the host by something it carries called reverse transcriptase. Hence, it belongs in the category of "retrovirus". This is important because many AIDS drug target RT, since it does not appear in the human body in a signicant fashion. (I am pretty sure. Someone prove me wrong!)
The structure of DNA has been crucial to the discovery of many drugs and medical processes. It is just that the average Joe doesn't realize that the structure of DNA was used in the creation of the drug. Consider recombinant insulin. Before its creation in the late eighties, diabetics did not have a cheap source of insulin and so suffered horribly. DNA recombination techniques allowed this advance to happen. Also, Cipro works by inhibiting the activity of bacterial gyrases.
The board of trustees of a publicly traded company do not necessarily have to do the best thing for the company's stockholders. Investors might be in it for a short term, but the company must take a longer-term view, and this may result in differences. Basically, the board just has to get an outside auditor to make sure that the deal is "fair." This has been problematic because the auditors are not always impartial (Worldcom, Enron, etc...)
A few decades ago, a Russian manned craft had a solar panel improperly extend. As a result, batteries necessary for deploying reentry chutes could not recharge. Mission Control knew that he was very likely going to die upon reentry, so they found his wife, and let them have a few minutes alone on the radio. Then they initiated reentry, which of course the cosmonaut did not survive.
I think it would have made a big difference to say goodbye.
Reading about the clandestine operations run by the Allies is always really fun. Operation XX (double-cross, get it) in particular was amazing. One man, code-named Garbo, got Hitler to believe that the entire Normandy invasion was an extensive feignt for an invasion at Calais. Hitler held back reinforcements for days.
Another squad put an abrasive in axle grease to effectively sabotage Nazi transportation.
And a radio operator was captured and forced to send Nazi messages. There was a fail-safe system in which all uncoerced messages contained a deliberate error, so that a perfect message would mean the sender was compromised. However, the people at base forgot about this protocol and kept on sending people to their deaths. Then the radio operator started to send "compromised" in parts at the end and beginning of messages but to no avail. When two POW escaped to friendly territory and warned them of the radio operator's fate, he was forced to send a message that they were in fact German spies. They were executed.
Really good reading.
Nagasaki was not the original target. The mission was supposed to target Nagaii, but because of inclement weather that would have interfered with bomb damage assessment photos, the pilot flew onward to hit Nagasaki.
And those who were against the nuclear bombings seem to ignore the fire bombing of Tokyo quite readily...
I thought that the hype regarding the dangers of Shuttle debris was overblown until I saw a picture of a completely intact fuel tank (a large sphere) sitting on someone's lawn with the entire family gathered in front of it. That might not be the smartest place to be....
Many have written that the Space Shuttle was obsolete before its maiden voyage and that it added nothing new to our space capabilities, given the availability of relatively cheap expendable boosters. I disagree. The Space Shuttle was used many times to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, giving it newfound sight. (The HST probbaly could not be launced through ELV because of the weight and G-force restrictions of its contemporary ELV.) And in addition to resupplying the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle keeps it in the air with judicial firings of its three main engines while docked.
Lastly, the greatest service it has provided for us could likely be the telemetry it has generated over its useful life. Imagine the tremendous stresses bourne by the craft on ascent and reentry, and the conditions it must weather up there in orbit for extended periods of time. These informations could be used towards the next space plane. Because of the Space Shuttle, there will be much less uncertainties of how things will react in these conditions.
Yes, perhaps recent uses of the Space Shuttle have been useless. But it has extended our space access capabilities as well has broadened the horizons of our knowledge.
A fearless soldier would be a tremendous asset. Sometimes doing the "right" thing (as defined by military strategy) may also be the most fear-inducing thing. For example, when under enemy machinegun fire, troops are supposed to keep moving so they are not pinned in and come under artillery attack. How many people would actually keep moving while under heavy machine-gun fire? This pill could actually save (American GI) lives if soldiers are not paralyzed by fear and can actually use their training effectively.
I just wanted to point out a contradiction in your argument. You said that American troops are made to check their weapons when entering hospitals to prevent a LOAC violation. So presumably, unarmed militants are not LOAC violations. Then you go on to say that an unarmed terrorist leader sitting in an apartment building was a violation of LOAC and thus Israel was justified in dropping a thousand pound bomb into a populated building.
To be frank, I don't care either way about the Israel-Palestine issue, but I just want to take faulty logic to task.
In the last Gulf War, most of the precision ordinance was laser-guided. Lasers are very problematic because they are scattered by fog, mist, smoke, and dust. The GPS-guided munitions that are presumably going to be used in any upcoming war use radio signals that do not have this problem. Instead, it seems as though they will be jammed. The Small-Diameter Bomb project being pursued by Boeing is going to use a new GPS system that will be more robust against jamming.
Also, one can argue that thousands of warheads were necessary. The Russians had many, many warheads, too. Whoever lost superiority would be vulnerable to a first-strike that knocked out all missiles accurate enough to retaliate against armored silos.