The worst thing is that the taxpayer will pay for this while the cop gets off. The whole system is messed up because the police are not required to be champions of the law -- they are taught to make assumptions and are trained with perpetuated illegal methods by their peers of the same creed.
I am interested by these sources and will be looking into them more deeply in the near future and as time goes on. I am curious about the context of the polls, but aside from that it is clear that your point is pretty well made.
Please link me to those polls. I want to see them. I, and others reading, deserve to see the facts here; and your ability to convince me to believe you is anchored in these facts.
From my observation and experience, you are completely wrong. While extremist islam is highly publicized, it is not popular at all among muslims.
Yeah dude sommething that happened over 600 years ago is totally relevent to a death threat made today against cartoonists.
Please.
When comparing extreme and wrongful actions of religions, it is highly relevant. Both religions have existed for hundreds of years. To ignore the wrongful acts done in the name of one religion and acknowledge the wrongful acts done in the name of another in this context is an argument based on convenience, not reality. The reality is that both Christianity and Islam have been used by people in various ways to carry out wrongful acts on others. The reality is that you're using selective criticism to purport an unrealistic exclusive view.
Please. If you can't be real, at least attempt being honest.
And when you've got people like Pat Robertson influencing millions with his ideas that we need to use nuclear warheads on many countries to induce armageddon and bring back christ (frikkin crazy)... Christian militias... and also the hundreds of thousands of misguided Christians in support of our wars for hateful reasons --- using our military as a race/religion-killing-device.
Most Christians and most Muslism are better than this. Please don't equate extremist Islam to all of Islam. You don't hear people accusing all Christians of acting like the westboro baptist church now do you?
Exactly. With a trailer you get to watch a bit of the movie, with a demo you get to play a bit of the game. By comparison, game trailers are sort of like a movie trailer where you only get to hear the audio. Demoes aren't a luxury, they're a courtesy.
For me, and MANY others, Demos are one of the only ways we will even get a chance to experience the game and then determine its value... From there, if the current price is at or below where we value it, we buy it. If it is above, we wait until the game is cheaper. And often by then we've moved on to other games.
But contrary to what these guys are thinking, I feel this bad idea will cost them more than they project to benefit. Less *free* demos means less people will pay to try it. Which means less people will try it. And from there less people will gain the confidence to buy it.
Plus, the last thing I want to end up doing is shelling out my money for an incomplete game. No matter how you look at it, if you decide you don't want the full game, you still paid for this 'chunk' of it. This will make you more regretful about the developer and even less likely to buy their demos in the first place. You now 'own' a fragment of a game you don't like --- and it cost you money.
Tie my spending to dissatisfaction and you're going to have a much harder time getting me to loosen up my wallet next time.
Interesting. I am going by the current generally accepted knowledge, but it sounds like you're aware of some groundbreaking new research in the field.
Maybe the maternal mitochondria are largely present in the egg (in large numbers) and thus are responsible for the high presence of its replicates in subsequent tissues from development--- but while the sperm may donate a couple during sperm fusion with the egg... From my knowledge the majority of mitochondria in sperm are located in the tail, which does not enter the egg upon fertilization. But maybe there are a few paternal Mt in other places that end up in the egg!
I would guess that since Mt are endosymbionts and aren't really competing with each other, that maybe the original dose (more from mom less from dad) relates to the later found distribution of primarliy maternal mitochondria?
This is an interesting point, to say the least, and when I get a minute I'll definitely look into it.
I realize I'm responding to an anonymous coward, but maybe you'll come back. I have a question. If other-than-maternal Mt are present, how is it that these heterogenous distributions of Mt don't produce confounding results in MtDNA SNP analyses that are used to trace human history?
I would say the mitochondria definitely affect the characteristics of the offspring. Mitochondria are the place where much of the metabolic pathways are involved.
I believe the whole point of this procedure was for would-be mothers who suffer from mitochondrial-related disorders to be able to bear children with their own chromosomal DNA but having healthy mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) (and thus healthy mitochondria).
Metabolism is a very big player in an organism's characteristics.
The mitochondria are separate from the nuclear chromosomal DNA. The timing of this experiment is only dependent on meiosis in that the chromosomal dna from the mother and father should be the product of meiosis: Haploid.
The mitochondrial DNA is unique and present in the mitochondria themselves. This is part of the understanding that mitochondria are from endosymbionts.
She did contribute DNA, its Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA). Mitochondrial DNA is unique from the rest of the genome and is not in the nucleus. It is found in the mitochondria.
All MtDNA in humans is transmitted from the mother because it is her mitochondria in the egg that will propagate into each cell as cells divide in development.
So she has contributed genes.
MtDNA from egg donor. Maternal chromosomal DNA is from the nuclear DNA donor. Paternal chromosomal DNA is from the sperm.
Social protections are wonderful, and rightly so. The majority was being abused and exploited, but the majority *is* the country, and so they are making the system fairer.
That is all beside the point, which is that it would be beneficial for us as a whole to invest more in ourselves than to shuttle dollars off to China buying cheap goods and increasing corporate profits. Yeah, no major American corporation would want to do that because to afford to pay americans they would have to drop some profit margins and sell less.... But I'm not talking about business, I'm talking about whats good for us. If you look at everything from a profit-max perspective, you're looking at it in the same way we ended up in this mess. We as a people should enforce ways that are better for all of us rather than the few.
You've totally gone off the point, and you've also completely ignored what all is encompassed in social welfare programs. Personally, I would like to expand ours. But that is all aside the point that spending in our own country provides more jobs and wealth *here*.
You talk as though China can just say "we want our money, give it to us now" which they can't. We could just not pay them, get a bad name worldwide, and collapse the world economy.
Matter of fact, most of the debts TO the US were solved this way... They simply didn't pay. We're still friends with Germany.
Minimum wage and worker safety laws alone would make many goods exponentially higher were they produced in the US. You'd also have to stop workers from unionizing, because that would also make prices somewhat higher, so quality of life for workers wouldn't be terribly high either.
I'm all for it. I yearn for what you speak of. Those dollars go to my fellow citizens! Those people will have jobs and purpose and will not require tax dollars in social programs now.
We could all use a few less things. Our focus on materials has distracted us from that which has much higher value: human interaction. Try it.
It would take protectionist policy to enforce this theoretical balance. What say you now?
Aside from that, and I know we disagree here, I would *gladly* pay more for the same product if it were made by my fellow citizens. As I said before, without them earning it that way, they will take it through social programs (for which I am very happy to support). By keeping the dollars within, we inherently produce more jobs for those without college educations (widespread) and those who got educations but chose paths that are not effective, like music and certain focuses of literature. They still need those mid-low level jobs. We're outsourcing so bad that these people, and those of lower education/skill are simply unable to find work --- thus the social programs kick in and we still pay.
The benefit to keeping the dollar, and thus the work, in the US is not only that we get something for the dollars going out -- but they get something to. Work is valuable to people. Work gives you pride, purpose, and above all, human experience. People degrade without work or purpose. On an alternate point, I've always felt there would be much more benefit in a social welfare JOB than a social welfare CHECK. I served in the military, and even though I had been far beyond the capacity of scrubbing toilets ---when it was needed I sometimes scrubbed toilets. And I learned from it, learned to smile, and above all I had work to do.
Work stimulus was a great idea. Much greater than handouts to the people or to banks.
It costs more to pay americans to do the job, thus the price must go up. Thus the materials are bought in lower quantity.. consumed less. Think about the wages, overhead, etc, of producing in country. I'm happy with it and would gladly buy 1/3 the crap for the same cost so long as it was made by my fellow citizens and I could personally drive to the company to say "hey, this is broken" if they wont' honor the warranty.
Why would I need to 'be careful' what I wish for. What, pray tell, do you fear of the reduction of imported cheap crap from china? Did you not acknowledge the value of keeping the dollars in country?
I have been careful. Materialism and chinese imports in general make me sick and embarrassed of my peers.
You say 'be careful' as if you fear such a change. Are you satisfied with this way of being? If so, I don't have anything else to talk to you about as I've already stated I'm embarrassed by people like that.
I disagree with nukes... Response in kind. If the damage is virtual, use virtual. If response in virtual fails, attempt to discern an equivalent physical response and carry it out. Or at least do tactical strikes on the various loci the attackers are trained in.
These are not 14 year old script kiddies... these are organized attacks by governments. Don't downplay what is going on; or likely in your case to talk about something without actually even knowing what is going on.
Let them respond to cyber attacks today and tomorrow they'll be asking if they can defend against physical attacks. I don't think we can afford to go down this road.
So your answer is apathy? Attacks range from network disruption, altering important information, and espionage of business and government information.
Being apathetic of such a serious issue is completely ridiculous and I don't think many people realize the severity of these attacks. This isn't a geocities page getting shut down here.
Furthermore, what do these attacks symbolize? Are they the actions of a country whose face smiles at us and hands shake with us? Are we to maintain the facade of cooperation as they quietly attempt to devalue and destroy us?
Let me come to your house and steal your things. Will you stand there like a coward and worry about what I would do if you tried to stop me?
Yes, its dangerous to protect yourself and your property. But if you don't, you'll get chewed up anyway. GET REAL.
... will we realize that we should maybe consider possibly not putting nearly all of our business there?
I realize we need china to support American materialism/consumerism. A cultural revolution could change that, though. I would much rather buy less, but of higher quality, as produced by my fellow citizens -- keeping the dollars in our own country and filling the bank accounts of people who otherwise wouldn't have had a job and would want my dollars anyway.
Something to think about... When you buy American, you reinvest in your fellow citizens. I'm not a champion of nationalism, but we are far from world unity and the last thing our country needs is to keep sending our dollars elsewhere.
When the one-world utopia happens, I'm all for it.
I'd say that's a fair comparison. I like the plot/story, though --- think of it more like 'a snapshot of the times' --- a piece of one man's story in the mix of the world where so much is going on. I do it with Kubric too... many a venetian-masked orgy.... many green beret assasins in vietnam going awkward and awry... many people getting an AI child... etc.
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And conspiracy. And fraud. And assault/threat.
The worst thing is that the taxpayer will pay for this while the cop gets off. The whole system is messed up because the police are not required to be champions of the law -- they are taught to make assumptions and are trained with perpetuated illegal methods by their peers of the same creed.
I am interested by these sources and will be looking into them more deeply in the near future and as time goes on. I am curious about the context of the polls, but aside from that it is clear that your point is pretty well made.
Please link me to those polls. I want to see them. I, and others reading, deserve to see the facts here; and your ability to convince me to believe you is anchored in these facts.
From my observation and experience, you are completely wrong. While extremist islam is highly publicized, it is not popular at all among muslims.
I really want to see those facts.
Yeah dude sommething that happened over 600 years ago is totally relevent to a death threat made today against cartoonists.
Please.
When comparing extreme and wrongful actions of religions, it is highly relevant. Both religions have existed for hundreds of years. To ignore the wrongful acts done in the name of one religion and acknowledge the wrongful acts done in the name of another in this context is an argument based on convenience, not reality. The reality is that both Christianity and Islam have been used by people in various ways to carry out wrongful acts on others. The reality is that you're using selective criticism to purport an unrealistic exclusive view.
Please. If you can't be real, at least attempt being honest.
And so? It is still highly relevant.
And when you've got people like Pat Robertson influencing millions with his ideas that we need to use nuclear warheads on many countries to induce armageddon and bring back christ (frikkin crazy)... Christian militias... and also the hundreds of thousands of misguided Christians in support of our wars for hateful reasons --- using our military as a race/religion-killing-device.
Most Christians and most Muslism are better than this. Please don't equate extremist Islam to all of Islam. You don't hear people accusing all Christians of acting like the westboro baptist church now do you?
You have to compare apples to apples. Extremist Islam to Extremist Christians, etc.
These people are equivalent to the westboro baptist church, christian militias, crusaders, etc.
Most muslims and most christians are better than this.
Exactly. With a trailer you get to watch a bit of the movie, with a demo you get to play a bit of the game. By comparison, game trailers are sort of like a movie trailer where you only get to hear the audio. Demoes aren't a luxury, they're a courtesy.
For me, and MANY others, Demos are one of the only ways we will even get a chance to experience the game and then determine its value... From there, if the current price is at or below where we value it, we buy it. If it is above, we wait until the game is cheaper. And often by then we've moved on to other games.
But contrary to what these guys are thinking, I feel this bad idea will cost them more than they project to benefit. Less *free* demos means less people will pay to try it. Which means less people will try it. And from there less people will gain the confidence to buy it.
Plus, the last thing I want to end up doing is shelling out my money for an incomplete game. No matter how you look at it, if you decide you don't want the full game, you still paid for this 'chunk' of it. This will make you more regretful about the developer and even less likely to buy their demos in the first place. You now 'own' a fragment of a game you don't like --- and it cost you money.
Tie my spending to dissatisfaction and you're going to have a much harder time getting me to loosen up my wallet next time.
Interesting. I am going by the current generally accepted knowledge, but it sounds like you're aware of some groundbreaking new research in the field.
Maybe the maternal mitochondria are largely present in the egg (in large numbers) and thus are responsible for the high presence of its replicates in subsequent tissues from development--- but while the sperm may donate a couple during sperm fusion with the egg... From my knowledge the majority of mitochondria in sperm are located in the tail, which does not enter the egg upon fertilization. But maybe there are a few paternal Mt in other places that end up in the egg!
I would guess that since Mt are endosymbionts and aren't really competing with each other, that maybe the original dose (more from mom less from dad) relates to the later found distribution of primarliy maternal mitochondria?
This is an interesting point, to say the least, and when I get a minute I'll definitely look into it.
I realize I'm responding to an anonymous coward, but maybe you'll come back. I have a question. If other-than-maternal Mt are present, how is it that these heterogenous distributions of Mt don't produce confounding results in MtDNA SNP analyses that are used to trace human history?
I would say the mitochondria definitely affect the characteristics of the offspring. Mitochondria are the place where much of the metabolic pathways are involved.
I believe the whole point of this procedure was for would-be mothers who suffer from mitochondrial-related disorders to be able to bear children with their own chromosomal DNA but having healthy mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) (and thus healthy mitochondria).
Metabolism is a very big player in an organism's characteristics.
Did you mean to say "I don't like this." ?
The mitochondria are separate from the nuclear chromosomal DNA. The timing of this experiment is only dependent on meiosis in that the chromosomal dna from the mother and father should be the product of meiosis: Haploid.
The mitochondrial DNA is unique and present in the mitochondria themselves. This is part of the understanding that mitochondria are from endosymbionts.
She did contribute DNA, its Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA). Mitochondrial DNA is unique from the rest of the genome and is not in the nucleus. It is found in the mitochondria.
All MtDNA in humans is transmitted from the mother because it is her mitochondria in the egg that will propagate into each cell as cells divide in development.
So she has contributed genes.
MtDNA from egg donor.
Maternal chromosomal DNA is from the nuclear DNA donor.
Paternal chromosomal DNA is from the sperm.
Tenfold my ass. If you're going to say that I want to see figures.
Social protections are wonderful, and rightly so. The majority was being abused and exploited, but the majority *is* the country, and so they are making the system fairer.
That is all beside the point, which is that it would be beneficial for us as a whole to invest more in ourselves than to shuttle dollars off to China buying cheap goods and increasing corporate profits. Yeah, no major American corporation would want to do that because to afford to pay americans they would have to drop some profit margins and sell less.... But I'm not talking about business, I'm talking about whats good for us. If you look at everything from a profit-max perspective, you're looking at it in the same way we ended up in this mess. We as a people should enforce ways that are better for all of us rather than the few.
You've totally gone off the point, and you've also completely ignored what all is encompassed in social welfare programs. Personally, I would like to expand ours. But that is all aside the point that spending in our own country provides more jobs and wealth *here*.
You talk as though China can just say "we want our money, give it to us now" which they can't. We could just not pay them, get a bad name worldwide, and collapse the world economy.
Matter of fact, most of the debts TO the US were solved this way... They simply didn't pay. We're still friends with Germany.
Minimum wage and worker safety laws alone would make many goods exponentially higher were they produced in the US. You'd also have to stop workers from unionizing, because that would also make prices somewhat higher, so quality of life for workers wouldn't be terribly high either.
I'm all for it. I yearn for what you speak of. Those dollars go to my fellow citizens! Those people will have jobs and purpose and will not require tax dollars in social programs now.
We could all use a few less things. Our focus on materials has distracted us from that which has much higher value: human interaction. Try it.
It would take protectionist policy to enforce this theoretical balance. What say you now?
Aside from that, and I know we disagree here, I would *gladly* pay more for the same product if it were made by my fellow citizens. As I said before, without them earning it that way, they will take it through social programs (for which I am very happy to support). By keeping the dollars within, we inherently produce more jobs for those without college educations (widespread) and those who got educations but chose paths that are not effective, like music and certain focuses of literature. They still need those mid-low level jobs. We're outsourcing so bad that these people, and those of lower education/skill are simply unable to find work --- thus the social programs kick in and we still pay.
The benefit to keeping the dollar, and thus the work, in the US is not only that we get something for the dollars going out -- but they get something to. Work is valuable to people. Work gives you pride, purpose, and above all, human experience. People degrade without work or purpose. On an alternate point, I've always felt there would be much more benefit in a social welfare JOB than a social welfare CHECK. I served in the military, and even though I had been far beyond the capacity of scrubbing toilets ---when it was needed I sometimes scrubbed toilets. And I learned from it, learned to smile, and above all I had work to do.
Work stimulus was a great idea. Much greater than handouts to the people or to banks.
It costs more to pay americans to do the job, thus the price must go up. Thus the materials are bought in lower quantity.. consumed less.
Think about the wages, overhead, etc, of producing in country. I'm happy with it and would gladly buy 1/3 the crap for the same cost so long as it was made by my fellow citizens and I could personally drive to the company to say "hey, this is broken" if they wont' honor the warranty.
Why would I need to 'be careful' what I wish for. What, pray tell, do you fear of the reduction of imported cheap crap from china? Did you not acknowledge the value of keeping the dollars in country?
I have been careful. Materialism and chinese imports in general make me sick and embarrassed of my peers.
You say 'be careful' as if you fear such a change. Are you satisfied with this way of being? If so, I don't have anything else to talk to you about as I've already stated I'm embarrassed by people like that.
I disagree with nukes... Response in kind. If the damage is virtual, use virtual. If response in virtual fails, attempt to discern an equivalent physical response and carry it out. Or at least do tactical strikes on the various loci the attackers are trained in.
These are not 14 year old script kiddies... these are organized attacks by governments. Don't downplay what is going on; or likely in your case to talk about something without actually even knowing what is going on.
Let them respond to cyber attacks today and tomorrow they'll be asking if they can defend against physical attacks. I don't think we can afford to go down this road.
So your answer is apathy? Attacks range from network disruption, altering important information, and espionage of business and government information.
Being apathetic of such a serious issue is completely ridiculous and I don't think many people realize the severity of these attacks. This isn't a geocities page getting shut down here.
Furthermore, what do these attacks symbolize? Are they the actions of a country whose face smiles at us and hands shake with us? Are we to maintain the facade of cooperation as they quietly attempt to devalue and destroy us?
Let me come to your house and steal your things. Will you stand there like a coward and worry about what I would do if you tried to stop me?
Yes, its dangerous to protect yourself and your property. But if you don't, you'll get chewed up anyway. GET REAL.
... will we realize that we should maybe consider possibly not putting nearly all of our business there?
I realize we need china to support American materialism/consumerism. A cultural revolution could change that, though. I would much rather buy less, but of higher quality, as produced by my fellow citizens -- keeping the dollars in our own country and filling the bank accounts of people who otherwise wouldn't have had a job and would want my dollars anyway.
Something to think about... When you buy American, you reinvest in your fellow citizens. I'm not a champion of nationalism, but we are far from world unity and the last thing our country needs is to keep sending our dollars elsewhere.
When the one-world utopia happens, I'm all for it.
.... google can also just implement the new codec on youtube... the whole world will follow.
I'd say that's a fair comparison. I like the plot/story, though --- think of it more like 'a snapshot of the times' --- a piece of one man's story in the mix of the world where so much is going on. I do it with Kubric too... many a venetian-masked orgy.... many green beret assasins in vietnam going awkward and awry... many people getting an AI child... etc.