The whole subject of DNA repair systems is really quite facinating. one of the systems for repairing UV damage in the cells in your skin is interesting in that it can actually be powered by light.
A good comparison would probably be to sunburn which is basically the same problem and most people are familiar with.
5 minutes sitting in the sun per day for a year isn't too bad. 6 hours in the sun on 1 very hot day is likely to leave you covered in blisters and sores as your skins repair mechanisms get overwhelmed and the cells self destruct.
I'd be a bit skeptical but it is concievable that exposure to low levels might cause your DNA repair mechanisms to be more active and overcompensate.
there are bacteria which can live happily in the heart of a nuclear reactor. I came across a paper a while back which I'll try to dig up which said they were feeding off the radiation using some kind of melanin-like compound like plants use chlorophyll.
it's very comparable to those kinds of things, I'm guessing that since the hacking law was written with penalties assuming that it would be people breaking into bank servers or stealing credit card numbers the judge wasn't keen to apply such large penalties for something which has more in common with sneaking into a cinema or riding the subway without a ticket.
ya, I heard the story about the guy who was making money at a rate that projected to about half a million a year if he kept selling books but 10 million? nonsense.
the point is that there's always some kind of a risk. If you build a chemical plant it could leak toxic gases, if you build an oil platform it could catch fire or leak vast quantities of sluge into the area.
as it stands the whole nuclear plant problem is utterly dwarfed by the far far larger disaster around it.
even with events like this every few decades it's far safer than it's alternatives .
actually newer plants are designed such that they don't need active cooling.
as far as I know there was a plant far closer to the center of the earthquake which is perfectly fine. It was the combination of the quake and the tsunami which caused the problem. it could withstand either fine.
9.5? It should be able to withstand 23! no simple starquake should be able to crack it, and build it out of pure unobtanium.
do you live downstream of any big hydro dams? If you do look up how powerful an earthquake it's designed to withstand, if it fails then tens of thousands of people could die yet there's always a limit.
Current and at this point very possibly final toll due to the problems at the nuclear plant: 0 and a pair of broken legs.
Current and incredibly uncertain death toll due to the earthquake and tsunami:14000
ratio of media attention: nuclear plant: constant disaster: fuck all
because nuclear is dramatic. People digging through homes to try to find pieces of their loved ones is just depressing. Where's the article for the countless heros who have been digging people out of the wreckage?
If you had a time machine making sure he got into art college would probably do the trick as well.
" His drawings which he presented as evidence of his ability, were rejected as they had too few people in them. The examining board did not just want a landscape artist."
unfortunately to a great extent while he encouraged the wave of anti-Semitism in europe the nazi party was also riding it anyway, just shoot him and there's a reasonable chance things could still very well have turned out as bad.
The former(ya right) political wing of the IRA has gotten people elected into the dail and various positions of power in northern ireland. They've scaled back because the catholics/republicans in the north are being treated like crap less. Giving them a voice cut down on the violence, the exact opposite of your insane claims.
You respond to hitler by not supporting him and by speaking out against him, not by shooting him. that just creates a martyr to his cause and a replacement arises out of the cesspool that pushed someone like that into power.
on a related note you can't anti-invoke godwins law to make it not count when comparing something as trivial as school bullies to hitler thus according to the ancient traditions of the internet the debate is over, your side has automatically lost.
Their markets have expanded greatly, the cost of equipment for production has dropped, their cost of distribution has dropped through the floor to almost nothing and wow the price has dropped all the way from 10 to.... 9. huh...
He does make a good point about Puerto Ricans though.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States: "belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States"
they have no voting representative in the U.S. Congress yet U.S. federal law applies to Puerto Rico. They have U.S. citizenship yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
Puerto Rico residents are required to pay U.S. federal taxes, import/export taxes,federal commodity taxes, social security taxes etc yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
Since 1917 Puerto Ricans have been included in the compulsory draft whenever it has been in effect yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
so if you try to get someone fired for wrongdoing, no matter how justifiably (lets say you try to get that waiter who spat on you fired) then that's just "tortious interference" and they should be able to get damages out of you?
and yet they still, quite simply, are taxed without having any representation. Nothing you said justifies that. it just makes you feel better about it.
well one way to increase life expectancy is to just kill the unhealthy people .
Sometimes I wonder what kind of crap is going to come out 50 years from now about screwed up tests of weapons on civilians in our own countries. 2062: "oh hey, it looks like in 2012 the government released a load of nanites in a homeless shelter to see how well they'd spread"
His blog reads like a crusade for hatred of anyone who's ever done something wrong. No forgiveness, no conscience
your words would be more convincing if he'd actually lied.
there is absolutely nothing wrong with what he wrote. you're not required to be nice. lets have a look at this " crusade for hatred " shall we...
Word reached me about a week ago from a source that former JACC Executive Director Jerry Moore had been hired by the UROC program at U of M; the nice (but obviously naive) folks bringing North Minneapolis that big, expensive, rather slowly-delivered project at the former Penn-Plymouth shopping center. Another creditable source made some calls and confirmed firsthand this was, in fact, the case. Jerry Moore is now--among many other things--a gopher.
My U of M gopher blood boils with shame. THE SHAME!!!!!!!!
Jerry Moore--who has been a plaintiff in a lawsuit against JACC, and was fired from his executive director position for misconduct, (fistfight, cough cough) is nothing if not a controversial figure in the Jordan Neighborhood...
So when word reached certain neighborhood movers and shakers about Jerry being hired by UROC, and being involved with some kind of "research" about mortgage issues in North Minneapolis, consternation was followed by seething anger. Repeated and specific evidence in Hennepin County District Court shows Jerry Moore was involved with a high-profile fraudulent mortgage at 1564 Hillside Ave. N. The collective judgment of decent people in the Jordan Neighborhood--"decent" being defined as "not actively involved in mortgage fraud"--is that Jerry Moore is the last person who should be working on this kind of task and WHAT THE HELL was U of M thinking by hiring him?
Even assuming (as lawyers say) "arguendo" that Jerry Moore has received a bad rap over 1564 Hillside Ave. N., the problem remains that current JACC leadership will have nothing to do with Jerry Moore, and the Jordan Neighborhood makes up a big part of North Minneapolis. It's not hard to picture situations where the UROC people attempt to engage the leadership of Jordan, but all the "Jordanites" will want to talk about is, "Why the hell did you hire Jerry Moore, and when will you be getting rid of him? Get rid of him and we will talk."
That's the word I'm getting from neighborhood leadership. In fact, my reason for delaying posting about this matter was because I was prevailed upon to avoid airing this dirty laundry until there was a chance, behind the scenes, to call some leaders at U of M and fix this mess. With the matter still pretty much the same as it was a week ago, I was contacted and told to please, please blog about this matter. So: Jerry Moore is working for UROC, and UROC has just lost major cred with North Minneapolis leadership. (The ones not involved with mortgage fraud, anyway, which clearly doesn't include all the self-declared leadership)
In fact, some are going so far as to say UROC has never had the creditability of CURA, which is another program at U of M which has been working with neighborhood issues for a long time, very successfully, though often with a low profile. The question being asked in this time of budget cuts is "Why is there a UROC at all? Why not just have things done under CURA, a program with a proven track record which would never, in a hundred years, pull this kind of stupid bulls***t?"
I thought the Kyshtym disaster was preceded by far worse years of dumping radioactive material into the local river.
That wiki briefly mentions the dumping into the river Ob but from what I've heard from other sources more was dumped into the rivers than was in the tanks which exploded. All of course surrounded by the iron curtain style secrecy.
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The whole subject of DNA repair systems is really quite facinating.
one of the systems for repairing UV damage in the cells in your skin is interesting in that it can actually be powered by light.
A good comparison would probably be to sunburn which is basically the same problem and most people are familiar with.
5 minutes sitting in the sun per day for a year isn't too bad.
6 hours in the sun on 1 very hot day is likely to leave you covered in blisters and sores as your skins repair mechanisms get overwhelmed and the cells self destruct.
I'd be a bit skeptical but it is concievable that exposure to low levels might cause your DNA repair mechanisms to be more active and overcompensate.
there are bacteria which can live happily in the heart of a nuclear reactor.
I came across a paper a while back which I'll try to dig up which said they were feeding off the radiation using some kind of melanin-like compound like plants use chlorophyll.
it's very comparable to those kinds of things, I'm guessing that since the hacking law was written with penalties assuming that it would be people breaking into bank servers or stealing credit card numbers the judge wasn't keen to apply such large penalties for something which has more in common with sneaking into a cinema or riding the subway without a ticket.
depends how long writing the book took him.
ya, I heard the story about the guy who was making money at a rate that projected to about half a million a year if he kept selling books but 10 million? nonsense.
" The only way you would be restricted is by your own ignorance."
as long as you're outside america.
Inside you'd also be restricted by the laws which make it illegal to circumvent copyright restrictions.
the point is that there's always some kind of a risk.
If you build a chemical plant it could leak toxic gases, if you build an oil platform it could catch fire or leak vast quantities of sluge into the area.
as it stands the whole nuclear plant problem is utterly dwarfed by the far far larger disaster around it.
even with events like this every few decades it's far safer than it's alternatives .
actually newer plants are designed such that they don't need active cooling.
as far as I know there was a plant far closer to the center of the earthquake which is perfectly fine. It was the combination of the quake and the tsunami which caused the problem.
it could withstand either fine.
9.5?
It should be able to withstand 23!
no simple starquake should be able to crack it, and build it out of pure unobtanium.
do you live downstream of any big hydro dams?
If you do look up how powerful an earthquake it's designed to withstand, if it fails then tens of thousands of people could die yet there's always a limit.
Current and at this point very possibly final toll due to the problems at the nuclear plant: 0 and a pair of broken legs.
Current and incredibly uncertain death toll due to the earthquake and tsunami:14000
ratio of media attention:
nuclear plant: constant
disaster: fuck all
because nuclear is dramatic.
People digging through homes to try to find pieces of their loved ones is just depressing.
Where's the article for the countless heros who have been digging people out of the wreckage?
If you had a time machine making sure he got into art college would probably do the trick as well.
" His drawings which he presented as evidence of his ability, were rejected as they had too few people in them. The examining board did not just want a landscape artist."
unfortunately to a great extent while he encouraged the wave of anti-Semitism in europe the nazi party was also riding it anyway, just shoot him and there's a reasonable chance things could still very well have turned out as bad.
The former(ya right) political wing of the IRA has gotten people elected into the dail and various positions of power in northern ireland.
They've scaled back because the catholics/republicans in the north are being treated like crap less.
Giving them a voice cut down on the violence, the exact opposite of your insane claims.
You respond to hitler by not supporting him and by speaking out against him, not by shooting him.
that just creates a martyr to his cause and a replacement arises out of the cesspool that pushed someone like that into power.
on a related note you can't anti-invoke godwins law to make it not count when comparing something as trivial as school bullies to hitler thus according to the ancient traditions of the internet the debate is over, your side has automatically lost.
well then that's where the problem lies, not with the randomer.
Sometimes I'm thankful to live somewhere that has decent employee protection so that such a clause wouldn't be legal.
That's every parties mantra apart from possibly the libertarians.
Their markets have expanded greatly, the cost of equipment for production has dropped, their cost of distribution has dropped through the floor to almost nothing and wow the price has dropped all the way from 10 to.... 9. huh...
He does make a good point about Puerto Ricans though.
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States: "belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States"
they have no voting representative in the U.S. Congress yet U.S. federal law applies to Puerto Rico.
They have U.S. citizenship yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
Puerto Rico residents are required to pay U.S. federal taxes, import/export taxes,federal commodity taxes, social security taxes etc yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
Since 1917 Puerto Ricans have been included in the compulsory draft whenever it has been in effect yet they get no vote in congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections.
then the suit should have been against his former employers for wrongful dismissal given that they apparently fired him on the sayso of some randomer.
isn't he so mean.
so if you try to get someone fired for wrongdoing, no matter how justifiably (lets say you try to get that waiter who spat on you fired) then that's just "tortious interference" and they should be able to get damages out of you?
being nice would have made it no better.
and yet they still, quite simply, are taxed without having any representation.
Nothing you said justifies that.
it just makes you feel better about it.
well one way to increase life expectancy is to just kill the unhealthy people .
Sometimes I wonder what kind of crap is going to come out 50 years from now about screwed up tests of weapons on civilians in our own countries.
2062:
"oh hey, it looks like in 2012 the government released a load of nanites in a homeless shelter to see how well they'd spread"
His blog reads like a crusade for hatred of anyone who's ever done something wrong. No forgiveness, no conscience
your words would be more convincing if he'd actually lied.
there is absolutely nothing wrong with what he wrote.
you're not required to be nice.
lets have a look at this " crusade for hatred " shall we...
Word reached me about a week ago from a source that former JACC Executive Director Jerry Moore had been hired by the UROC program at U of M; the nice (but obviously naive) folks bringing North Minneapolis that big, expensive, rather slowly-delivered project at the former Penn-Plymouth shopping center. Another creditable source made some calls and confirmed firsthand this was, in fact, the case. Jerry Moore is now--among many other things--a gopher.
My U of M gopher blood boils with shame. THE SHAME!!!!!!!!
Jerry Moore--who has been a plaintiff in a lawsuit against JACC, and was fired from his executive director position for misconduct, (fistfight, cough cough) is nothing if not a controversial figure in the Jordan Neighborhood...
So when word reached certain neighborhood movers and shakers about Jerry being hired by UROC, and being involved with some kind of "research" about mortgage issues in North Minneapolis, consternation was followed by seething anger. Repeated and specific evidence in Hennepin County District Court shows Jerry Moore was involved with a high-profile fraudulent mortgage at 1564 Hillside Ave. N. The collective judgment of decent people in the Jordan Neighborhood--"decent" being defined as "not actively involved in mortgage fraud"--is that Jerry Moore is the last person who should be working on this kind of task and WHAT THE HELL was U of M thinking by hiring him?
Even assuming (as lawyers say) "arguendo" that Jerry Moore has received a bad rap over 1564 Hillside Ave. N., the problem remains that current JACC leadership will have nothing to do with Jerry Moore, and the Jordan Neighborhood makes up a big part of North Minneapolis. It's not hard to picture situations where the UROC people attempt to engage the leadership of Jordan, but all the "Jordanites" will want to talk about is, "Why the hell did you hire Jerry Moore, and when will you be getting rid of him? Get rid of him and we will talk."
That's the word I'm getting from neighborhood leadership. In fact, my reason for delaying posting about this matter was because I was prevailed upon to avoid airing this dirty laundry until there was a chance, behind the scenes, to call some leaders at U of M and fix this mess. With the matter still pretty much the same as it was a week ago, I was contacted and told to please, please blog about this matter. So: Jerry Moore is working for UROC, and UROC has just lost major cred with North Minneapolis leadership. (The ones not involved with mortgage fraud, anyway, which clearly doesn't include all the self-declared leadership)
In fact, some are going so far as to say UROC has never had the creditability of CURA, which is another program at U of M which has been working with neighborhood issues for a long time, very successfully, though often with a low profile. The question being asked in this time of budget cuts is "Why is there a UROC at all? Why not just have things done under CURA, a program with a proven track record which would never, in a hundred years, pull this kind of stupid bulls***t?"
who?
whoever is in charge of email.
whoever is in charge of enforcing RFC's.
whoever is in charge of usenet.
I thought the Kyshtym disaster was preceded by far worse years of dumping radioactive material into the local river.
That wiki briefly mentions the dumping into the river Ob but from what I've heard from other sources more was dumped into the rivers than was in the tanks which exploded.
All of course surrounded by the iron curtain style secrecy.
oh those soviets. what cards.
I believe they did both but there's some kind of problems getting enough to power the systems fully.
regular natural disaster deaths aren't as sexy as nuclear ones.
last I heard they were pumping seawater+boron into the reactors, anyone know how's that working out?