Any drug that can affect your nervous system can have all kinds of side-effects around the body.
Nurotransmitors not only affect brain cells, but are whidely used in the digestive system and blood vessels too. Fuck around in one place and you may fuck around elsewhere and a bunh early corpses found out.
Back in the 1970s someone bet the enivromentalist gadfly Paul Erlich (Population Bomb) that commodity prices would be lower in 20 years. Erlich was predicting huge inflation due to population pressures, but lost the bet. Every commodity was substabtially cheaper in inflation-adjusted dollars due to increased extraction efficiencies. Even today's high oil prices are lower than in the past when adjusted fore inflation.
There are still a number of theories out there that claim there is a special essence that only living matter possesses and not in its constitute chemistry and physics. This essence is passed from being to being through the reproductive chain. It also could be passed by contaminate contact with living matter, or distilled like the "life force" in Star Wars or Frankenstein. The absolute refutation of vitalism would be to construct living matter directly from chemicals.
Vitalism has been used (and still is) to support the contention of a Creator- living matter had to arise somewhere? It has been used to explain disease processes, but scienitifc medicine has modtly killed this aspect. A corollary of vitalism is a mind that is greater than the physical brain, which could make artificial minds impossible.
One of tyhe biggest disappoints of MicroSoft is that it has one of the largest R&D shops in the tech world (with an impressive array of papers at this weeks SIGGRAPH), but just ships products that copies others products. Vista is MacOS deja-vu all-over-again, not to mention a dozen other examples.
In science a "theory" is a comprehensive system of explanation. Its often derived from painstaking experiment and observation, but can be a thought-system too, such as in Relativity Theory or String Theory. ID is a theory in this sense too.
The fallacy of the anti-evolutionists assume scientists mean the common usage of "theory" which is a guess. (This is also the legal usage.) So when Darwin biologists say "Theory of Evolution" they mean a comphrensive system of explanation built upon 30 years of observation and labwork by Darwin and added to the subsequent 150 years.
The idea of Democratic Republics came
from Rome and Greece before they were
Christianized. These ideas were revived during
the 17th/18th century Enlightment, first
incorporated in the US government, then France and so on.
The technology is not the issue. Poor story-telling is. In fact increasingly cheaper technology is allowing more mediocre movie makers put more crap out there. I am very bored with movies about conflicted superheroes chasing bad guys. The computer is a tool, not an end.
The early US corporate stock market was a "wild west" with no holds bar. Lots of speculation and manipulation. China is pretty much like that these days. You simple cannot believe the financial reports of such companies. Thats was the people there who are prudent investors avoid Chinese companies completely and buy massive amounts of US bonds.
Astronomers and other scientists are usually allow each other to analyze data for a year before publication. Then you are supposed to share with anyone who asks. You risk not getting future grants if you peeve off too many of your fellow scientists.
Usually the problem is the other way around- people rush to publication. With so many eyes looking out there, a comet or asteroid may be seen by many others before long. Theres even a place to send a "telegram" to give you priority and naming rights. Plus it gets confirmation. There may be phenomena that is transient enough that it is important for others to know about it before it changes.
In the 80s the young MicroSoft was vibrant face of future computing. IBM was a bunch of stuffy suits.
The wheel has turned again, putting MicroSoft in IBMs position and Google as the upstart. And it will probably change again.
A company sells a device read hundreds of license plates an hour at freeway speeds. This company orignally manufactured mail-sorting machines where envolopes which flash by at about that rate. My state has purchased a few for evaluation. Its been an eye-opener in how many illegally licensed cars or drivers are out on the highway.
Whith such a machine you dont have to install tags for each car or buy reading machines. It is very portable. Crooks can disguise both RFIDs and license plates if so motivated.
They're over-reacting to every piece of data now. that will probably be the end of the US space program. The US will rent manned launch capacity from the Chinese in a few years then.
China's second manned orbit is scheduled about Oct 1, 2005 (their July 4). At the rate NASA was scrubbing, China could have launched first. Good luck to all astronauts, taikonauts or whatever.
While I admire that chutzpah of the people tracking down spammers and trying to put them out of business, its only a matter of time they cross the path of some business fronting for organized crime, e.g. gambling, porn, prescriptions, spam, etc.
The same thing with the college kid & church groups aiding Mexican border crossers during this terrible heat wave. They are going to get wacked by mules or drug couriers sooner or later.
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Any drug that can affect your nervous system can have all kinds of side-effects around the body. Nurotransmitors not only affect brain cells, but are whidely used in the digestive system and blood vessels too. Fuck around in one place and you may fuck around elsewhere and a bunh early corpses found out.
Both slashdotters and soldiers at the front dont change their unmentionables more than once week, though the latter have a good excuse.
(Have a sense of humor, moderators!)/
Back in the 1970s someone bet the enivromentalist gadfly Paul Erlich (Population Bomb) that commodity prices would be lower in 20 years. Erlich was predicting huge inflation due to population pressures, but lost the bet. Every commodity was substabtially cheaper in inflation-adjusted dollars due to increased extraction efficiencies. Even today's high oil prices are lower than in the past when adjusted fore inflation.
There are still a number of theories out there that claim there is a special essence that only living matter possesses and not in its constitute chemistry and physics. This essence is passed from being to being through the reproductive chain. It also could be passed by contaminate contact with living matter, or distilled like the "life force" in Star Wars or Frankenstein. The absolute refutation of vitalism would be to construct living matter directly from chemicals.
Vitalism has been used (and still is) to support the contention of a Creator- living matter had to arise somewhere? It has been used to explain disease processes, but scienitifc medicine has modtly killed this aspect. A corollary of vitalism is a mind that is greater than the physical brain, which could make artificial minds impossible.
That determination was impressive!
One of tyhe biggest disappoints of MicroSoft is that it has one of the largest R&D shops in the tech world (with an impressive array of papers at this weeks SIGGRAPH), but just ships products that copies others products. Vista is MacOS deja-vu all-over-again, not to mention a dozen other examples.
In science a "theory" is a comprehensive system of explanation. Its often derived from painstaking experiment and observation, but can be a thought-system too, such as in Relativity Theory or String Theory. ID is a theory in this sense too.
The fallacy of the anti-evolutionists assume scientists mean the common usage of "theory" which is a guess. (This is also the legal usage.) So when Darwin biologists say "Theory of Evolution" they mean a comphrensive system of explanation built upon 30 years of observation and labwork by Darwin and added to the subsequent 150 years.
The idea of Democratic Republics came from Rome and Greece before they were Christianized. These ideas were revived during the 17th/18th century Enlightment, first incorporated in the US government, then France and so on.
The technology is not the issue. Poor story-telling is. In fact increasingly cheaper technology is allowing more mediocre movie makers put more crap out there. I am very bored with movies about conflicted superheroes chasing bad guys. The computer is a tool, not an end.
I apologize to my canine friends for comparing you to MicroSoft :-)
Its easier to wear lead-shoelding on Mars because the force of gravity is lower.
The early US corporate stock market was a "wild west" with no holds bar. Lots of speculation and manipulation. China is pretty much like that these days. You simple cannot believe the financial reports of such companies. Thats was the people there who are prudent investors avoid Chinese companies completely and buy massive amounts of US bonds.
Astronomers and other scientists are usually allow each other to analyze data for a year before publication. Then you are supposed to share with anyone who asks. You risk not getting future grants if you peeve off too many of your fellow scientists.
Usually the problem is the other way around- people rush to publication. With so many eyes looking out there, a comet or asteroid may be seen by many others before long. Theres even a place to send a "telegram" to give you priority and naming rights. Plus it gets confirmation. There may be phenomena that is transient enough that it is important for others to know about it before it changes.
In the 80s the young MicroSoft was vibrant face of future computing. IBM was a bunch of stuffy suits.
The wheel has turned again, putting MicroSoft in IBMs position and Google as the upstart. And it will probably change again.
The UK is overcast like 80% of the year.
A company sells a device read hundreds of license plates an hour at freeway speeds. This company orignally manufactured mail-sorting machines where envolopes which flash by at about that rate. My state has purchased a few for evaluation. Its been an eye-opener in how many illegally licensed cars or drivers are out on the highway.
Whith such a machine you dont have to install tags for each car or buy reading machines. It is very portable. Crooks can disguise both RFIDs and license plates if so motivated.
They're over-reacting to every piece of data now. that will probably be the end of the US space program. The US will rent manned launch capacity from the Chinese in a few years then.
I'll probably qualify next month :-)
Where are those stratospheric IPOs when you need them?
Plus many of the ministers have scitech educations too. In the last century only Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover had scitech educations.
China's second manned orbit is scheduled about Oct 1, 2005 (their July 4). At the rate NASA was scrubbing, China could have launched first. Good luck to all astronauts, taikonauts or whatever.
I havent seen this lame joke in while.
Petaflops is so early 21st century. Got to talk in exaflops now.
Recording is mainly for time-shifting. If I dont watchit within a week, I'll probably never watch it. I rarely have time to watch that much in a week.
While I admire that chutzpah of the people tracking down spammers and trying to put them out of business, its only a matter of time they cross the path of some business fronting for organized crime, e.g. gambling, porn, prescriptions, spam, etc.
The same thing with the college kid & church groups aiding Mexican border crossers during this terrible heat wave. They are going to get wacked by mules or drug couriers sooner or later.
They should fit the whole contraption in a hearing aid size form factor. Then have a wireless control either on a ring or wristwatch form factor.