From what I can tell the mechanism pretty much IS always active. The trim21 is already in the cell but only sees the antibodies once the virus has invaded the cell though, and the cylinders only digest when the trim21 is bound to the antigens. (as far as I can tell from the article at least, I am a biochemist but I haven't researched this effect further on my own.)
This isn't like antibiotics though. This is a naturally occurring chemical that your body produces. The human body has been fighting colds for ages and they haven't evolved into a serious threat, nor will it. It's key to survival is the fact that it doesn't kill you. That way it can spread and infect more people, thus insuring its survival. However, that said, what effects throwing in an excess of antibodies that your body would normally produce does to the immune response over time is another question entirely. Could the body come to assume there was a magical load of antibodies going to come on its own (the drug) and decide not to waste the resources to make any of its own anymore? That's more my worry. (sort of like how a certain type of diabetes is induced rather than genetic)
This story has no context. Without knowing what the decision was that they cited this on, there is no way for me to judge how appropriate this was or wasn't.
Um, there is evidence for the Big Bang. It's called the Microwave Background Radiation. This is not the end all be all proof, but it is evidence. God has no evidence. Thus the Big Bang is more plausible.
Yes, we should have no expectations of privacy. Because if we're not doing anything wrong we have nothing to hide right? And no one ever does anything wrong or makes a bad decision ever.
Facebook already has this as far as I can tell. There's a firefox addon that forces https whenever the site has it. It works for facebook. It just ends up disabling the chat function.
My agendum is to create an anarchist system of anonymous bad spellers on the internet. We won't make too many mistakes, just enough to piss of the grammar nazis.
How ironic that you misspelled... oh... I see what you did there!
For those interested, the GFP is fluorescent (basically meaning it immediately emits photons upon radiation with UV but will not glow in the absence of it), "Glow in the dark" chemicals are phosphorescent (basically meaning it slowly releases photons after radiation with UV or visible light and glows for a period of time after the light source has been removed), and then there is chemiluminescent chemicals like luminol (which is an active chemical reaction that releases photons for as long as the reaction occurs and is independent of ambient light).
In chicago when they switched to a private company for parking meters, who then jacked the prices up by 5-10 times what they originally were and couldn't be bothered to fix them when they broke, the public was furious. Practically no one would park at the meters anymore and there were rampant accounts of people purposely breaking the meters. What do you think is going to happen here? Now the company will have to pay for upkeep and repairs on the cameras as well as the meters so they'll charge even more. How long before the retaliation?
I do agree that other forms of life MAY be possible, but having a background in biochemistry you realize just how important water is to any concept of life to arise. Solubility, reactivity, and relative density properties that are necessary for any life to form are pretty much unique to water.
Wherever you are on this planet, the sun is in the same position all the time. You have very stable zones where the ecosystem stays the same temperature... basically forever
Unless the planet has moons (causing wind and ocean currents), or geological activity, or the sun's energy varies (sunspots, solar wind), or about a hundred other things that cause weather. Seems to me one side constantly being pummeled by sunlight wouldn't be anything but a desert. Maybe a ring of habitability around the area where the light side meets the dark side. But that's not really my field of expertise so take this with a grain of salt.
I agree that public trans is the way to go. If taxis weren't so god awfully expensive there'd be FAR fewer drunk driving incidents. (in the city at least)
And someone else might do it for free just to be beneficial to society. Look at all the DIY videos on youtube or writeups in car forums already. (I happen to have done a writeup myself for changing the color of the needles in the dashboard gauges. And without charging anyone for it! ZOMG!)
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My wife and i started to go to drive-in when my daughter was born... laying on the hood of my car and sipping a beer
Uhhh... so who was driving home? Your newly unpregnant wife, your newborn daughter, or your drunk ass?
From what I can tell the mechanism pretty much IS always active. The trim21 is already in the cell but only sees the antibodies once the virus has invaded the cell though, and the cylinders only digest when the trim21 is bound to the antigens. (as far as I can tell from the article at least, I am a biochemist but I haven't researched this effect further on my own.)
This isn't like antibiotics though. This is a naturally occurring chemical that your body produces. The human body has been fighting colds for ages and they haven't evolved into a serious threat, nor will it. It's key to survival is the fact that it doesn't kill you. That way it can spread and infect more people, thus insuring its survival. However, that said, what effects throwing in an excess of antibodies that your body would normally produce does to the immune response over time is another question entirely. Could the body come to assume there was a magical load of antibodies going to come on its own (the drug) and decide not to waste the resources to make any of its own anymore? That's more my worry. (sort of like how a certain type of diabetes is induced rather than genetic)
Virus rollls self for initiative.
I'd prefer that people buy a less locked-down device in the first place, but there isn't really an "Android pod touch" in the United States yet.
(looks down at his archos 5 that he bought from circuit city before it closed down) Hmm...
This story has no context. Without knowing what the decision was that they cited this on, there is no way for me to judge how appropriate this was or wasn't.
You and your damned Vulcan logic...
Um, there is evidence for the Big Bang. It's called the Microwave Background Radiation. This is not the end all be all proof, but it is evidence. God has no evidence. Thus the Big Bang is more plausible.
Yes, we should have no expectations of privacy. Because if we're not doing anything wrong we have nothing to hide right? And no one ever does anything wrong or makes a bad decision ever.
Eureka? I haven't seen a lot of it, but it seemed fairly non-dystopian to me.
Facebook already has this as far as I can tell. There's a firefox addon that forces https whenever the site has it. It works for facebook. It just ends up disabling the chat function.
We have that already. They're called baristas.
Well technically it's usually yeast that do that. Bacteria tend to make acetic acid (vinegar). But I agree with the intention behind your post.
Don't you mean Innerlords?
My agendum is to create an anarchist system of anonymous bad spellers on the internet. We won't make too many mistakes, just enough to piss of the grammar nazis.
How ironic that you misspelled... oh... I see what you did there!
For those interested, the GFP is fluorescent (basically meaning it immediately emits photons upon radiation with UV but will not glow in the absence of it), "Glow in the dark" chemicals are phosphorescent (basically meaning it slowly releases photons after radiation with UV or visible light and glows for a period of time after the light source has been removed), and then there is chemiluminescent chemicals like luminol (which is an active chemical reaction that releases photons for as long as the reaction occurs and is independent of ambient light).
And I want a pony.
In chicago when they switched to a private company for parking meters, who then jacked the prices up by 5-10 times what they originally were and couldn't be bothered to fix them when they broke, the public was furious. Practically no one would park at the meters anymore and there were rampant accounts of people purposely breaking the meters. What do you think is going to happen here? Now the company will have to pay for upkeep and repairs on the cameras as well as the meters so they'll charge even more. How long before the retaliation?
...and which would then open the door for adding safety features
I'm pretty sure that if your HUD opened your door while you were driving it would be the opposite of a safety feature...
If I said Linux was a shitty desktop OS, because when I used it in 1998 the sound didn't work properly, everyone would just laugh.
Don't worry, it still doesn't work.
I do agree that other forms of life MAY be possible, but having a background in biochemistry you realize just how important water is to any concept of life to arise. Solubility, reactivity, and relative density properties that are necessary for any life to form are pretty much unique to water.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/29/earth-like-planet-gliese-581g
Another article on this that backs up my claim.
Wherever you are on this planet, the sun is in the same position all the time. You have very stable zones where the ecosystem stays the same temperature... basically forever
Unless the planet has moons (causing wind and ocean currents), or geological activity, or the sun's energy varies (sunspots, solar wind), or about a hundred other things that cause weather. Seems to me one side constantly being pummeled by sunlight wouldn't be anything but a desert. Maybe a ring of habitability around the area where the light side meets the dark side. But that's not really my field of expertise so take this with a grain of salt.
I don't even understand where those two percentages came from. There is nothing even in the article about that...
I agree that public trans is the way to go. If taxis weren't so god awfully expensive there'd be FAR fewer drunk driving incidents. (in the city at least)
And someone else might do it for free just to be beneficial to society. Look at all the DIY videos on youtube or writeups in car forums already. (I happen to have done a writeup myself for changing the color of the needles in the dashboard gauges. And without charging anyone for it! ZOMG!)