Yeah, that was my understanding of it. I was told that it's why releasing detergent into ecosystems via wastewater is a bigger deal than releasing soap. Assuming that what we said is true, it seems more likely that bacteria would develop a resistance to detergent than soap.
My understanding was always that soap just allowed water to rinse bacteria away more effectively than water alone, without actually killing the bacteria. Is that the sort of thing that bacteria can adapt to? (Genuinely curious, not being snotty.)
I loved The Golden Compass when I was about 11. Actually, I still do. I don't know if it would have been as cool if I had seen the movie first though, cos the movie definitely didn't do the book justice. I'm sure the "Heavy Atheism" has been prominent enough in the media that anyone buying these books for their kids will know that already.
DogsBody, by Dianne Wynne Jones, was pretty sweet too but it was kind of dark in the start.
Ooh, and although I don't know if it's appropriate for kids, The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter is about the height of rad escapism. It's an authorized sequel of The Time Machine, I guess.
Yeah, but creating child pornography is illegal even if one does not encrypt them when they're stored on ones' laptop. Writing policy papers on my city's harm-reduction drug strategy isn't illegal, although it's not something I want to pop up every time I try to enter the US.
I don't like the implication that because bad people like privacy so they don't get caught doing bad things, everyone who likes their privacy is doing bad things. There's a name for that particular fallacy, I think, but I don't remember. It's really quite similar to the argument that law-abiding citizens shouldn't mind the ever-present CCTV surveillance of public areas, since it will only affect criminals.
that many of my friends, and sometimes even myself, find it uncomfortable in genuinely quiet settings. While it is a useful skill to be able to keep track of more than one or two things at a time, it seems almost habit-forming. A good friend of mine seems to basically invent things to do so that he doesn't ever get "stuck" with one task at a time, which he says is boring.
The most annoying thing I can think of is when I'm at my job or in labs at school, and people come at me with a bunch of different requests, all expecting me to drop everything and get it done 'like now!'. Yes, I can manage several things at once, but sometimes properly managing things means doing them one at a time, carefully. Providing it's not a pressing issue, I wish people would be okay with the answer 'I'm just finishing up my current task, I will get to the next one as soon as I'm done'.
as if life in a basement suite isn't bad enough with Rock Band. Now there's going to be a whole new selection of shitty radio rock for my upstairs neighbors to sing to.
PS To my upstairs neighbor: You have a voice that only a mother could love. Please stop trying to sing "Say it Ain't So", it hurts everyone involved.
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Yeah, that was my understanding of it. I was told that it's why releasing detergent into ecosystems via wastewater is a bigger deal than releasing soap. Assuming that what we said is true, it seems more likely that bacteria would develop a resistance to detergent than soap.
My understanding was always that soap just allowed water to rinse bacteria away more effectively than water alone, without actually killing the bacteria. Is that the sort of thing that bacteria can adapt to? (Genuinely curious, not being snotty.)
I loved The Golden Compass when I was about 11. Actually, I still do. I don't know if it would have been as cool if I had seen the movie first though, cos the movie definitely didn't do the book justice. I'm sure the "Heavy Atheism" has been prominent enough in the media that anyone buying these books for their kids will know that already.
DogsBody, by Dianne Wynne Jones, was pretty sweet too but it was kind of dark in the start.
Ooh, and although I don't know if it's appropriate for kids, The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter is about the height of rad escapism. It's an authorized sequel of The Time Machine, I guess.
Yeah, but creating child pornography is illegal even if one does not encrypt them when they're stored on ones' laptop. Writing policy papers on my city's harm-reduction drug strategy isn't illegal, although it's not something I want to pop up every time I try to enter the US.
I don't like the implication that because bad people like privacy so they don't get caught doing bad things, everyone who likes their privacy is doing bad things. There's a name for that particular fallacy, I think, but I don't remember. It's really quite similar to the argument that law-abiding citizens shouldn't mind the ever-present CCTV surveillance of public areas, since it will only affect criminals.
that many of my friends, and sometimes even myself, find it uncomfortable in genuinely quiet settings. While it is a useful skill to be able to keep track of more than one or two things at a time, it seems almost habit-forming. A good friend of mine seems to basically invent things to do so that he doesn't ever get "stuck" with one task at a time, which he says is boring.
The most annoying thing I can think of is when I'm at my job or in labs at school, and people come at me with a bunch of different requests, all expecting me to drop everything and get it done 'like now!'. Yes, I can manage several things at once, but sometimes properly managing things means doing them one at a time, carefully. Providing it's not a pressing issue, I wish people would be okay with the answer 'I'm just finishing up my current task, I will get to the next one as soon as I'm done'.
as if life in a basement suite isn't bad enough with Rock Band. Now there's going to be a whole new selection of shitty radio rock for my upstairs neighbors to sing to.
PS To my upstairs neighbor: You have a voice that only a mother could love. Please stop trying to sing "Say it Ain't So", it hurts everyone involved.