expect him to insist that coal is wonderful no matter what, he'll keep on and on about how all the plants where he lives (I can only assume as some kind of employee in the PR department) are perfectly clean and don't release and toxic chemicals, heavy metals or anything but sunshine and he'll keep referring to sources and documents which he is sure he read one time somewhere but which he feels no need to actually provide.
meanwhile he's sure that almost everyone near Chernobyl died within days and there's been some kind of sinister coverup since then because he clearly remembers the news reports at the time talking about everyone dying.
That would be wonderful but no matter how much you don't like it that is not how the world actually is. Coal mining and coal power production actually kills that many people right now.
If it was not coal mining, if they had robots digging all the coal, if they could magic coal out of the air, if they could put every worker into a full suit of body armour capable of withstanding a cave-in and if they could just run the power plants without the need for all that messy coal then yes the figure would be lower.
unfortunately here in the real world the numbers are what they are and no amount of wishing makes any difference.
It does though imply that since the very non-optimal local approach works fairly well a more optimal approach should be possible with better information and enough processing power.
NP hard doesn't stop being NP hard just because you distribute it across a lot of nodes.
So are you just saying that capitalism devotes more processing power to the problem?(every business owner rather than just a few hundred people in one office) and gathers more and better information? (again using every business owner)
with the disadvantage that most of the nodes probably have very poor information and don't share.
that would seem to indicate that a centrally planned economy could work even better with enough processing power and enough information being gathered since more information could be gathered, shared and applied towards a goal.
I know this is a bit old but I was just reading back and noticed your wonderfully informative posts.
I'm not quite clear: in this case did they actually program the T cells with an off switch/self destruct or is that just something they could potentially do? What kind of system could be used for the self destruct?
Just to be clear: no matter what phone you have your cell company already knows exactly where you are and where you've been. there was an article a while back about someone filing a FOI request and finding that their cell company had their location for the last 6 months.
when someone goes missing the police often request the data.
After a student went missing from the local uni they contacted his mobile phone company who were able to show the approximate path he took along with the last known location, sadly a bridge popular for suicides.
It's like a summary saying "patient cured with cyanide"....because one of the tools used to make the pills used cyanide in it's manufacture if you get the idea.
they used a modified retrovirus(in this case a modified harmless version of HIV) to genetically engineer a few of the patients own immune cells and then injected those cells back into the patient.
apparently the patients are still alive after almost a year so whatever the side effects they don't seem too bad.
close but not exactly. Where antigens are normally markers on the cell walls this treatment has the advantage that it actually looks for dsRNA inside every cell: something your own immune system can't do.
Actually from looking at how it works it'd probably be damned hard to evolve a resistance to it since it targets something extremely central to the virus life cycle so that may take quite a while.
Far harder than antibiotic resistance for bacteria
still fairly useful.Not as useful as it used to be but still good.
How much worse is MRSA compared to the weaker infections that people used to get?
no worse. it's just that we've become so accustomed to antibiotics working insanely well that when a handful of bugs become resistant they seem far scarier than their ancestors despite being no more deadly.
It's hard to comprehend how deadly bacterial infections were before Penicillin. Getting just a taste of it in the form of MRSA only seems scarier relative to how thing have been since penicillin.
It is however a worthy area to research and examine.
People spend hours doing boring, monotonous tasks over and over in MMO's "for fun" and seem to honestly enjoy it in order to unwind after hours doing boring, monotonous tasks over and over in a job they hate.
I think the line where it become simple extortion is where, in the hypothetical scenario that you're perfectly innocent, the "settlement" offer is the wiser and cheaper option due to the likely expense of the threatened legal action even with an almost sure win.
coal vs nuclear is like croad travel vs air travel.
coal kills vastly more people all the time but it only makes the local news or doesn't make the news at all. one more case of lung cancer isn't international news much like a couple of people dying in a car crash rarely makes the international news.
nuclear is vastly safer on average but in the incredibly rare case that it fails it makes international headlines for weeks. Even if people aren't killed any failure makes the international headlines much like how any big plane crash makes international news.
you're far more likely to die driving to the airport and you're far more likely to die from the emissions of a nearby coal plant than in a nuclear accident yet people are more afraid of flying and more afraid of nuclear because of the spectacle.
nuclear is extremely safe even counting worst case failures like Chernobyl if you look at it per terawatt and it's not unique in terms of making land unusable for decades or longer.
Personally I value lives more than land and the size of exclusion zones gradually shrink after an accident.
BSA bring you to court and accuse you of copyright violation: starting position 50:50
requirement for them to win: preponderance of the evidence. 50.01 : 49.99
a witness statement by a disgruntled former employee isn't worth much but it doesn't have to be.
So at this point the onus is on you to prove yourself innocent (civil court remember) and remember they've probably also used discovery to pull images of your servers and desktops. If someone has a copy of some freeware which says "free for non commercial use" then you're fucked. as now your claim that you don't have pirated software is worth less as you've now been shown to be lying.
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I've run into this guy before in other topics.
expect him to insist that coal is wonderful no matter what, he'll keep on and on about how all the plants where he lives (I can only assume as some kind of employee in the PR department) are perfectly clean and don't release and toxic chemicals, heavy metals or anything but sunshine and he'll keep referring to sources and documents which he is sure he read one time somewhere but which he feels no need to actually provide.
meanwhile he's sure that almost everyone near Chernobyl died within days and there's been some kind of sinister coverup since then because he clearly remembers the news reports at the time talking about everyone dying.
That would be wonderful but no matter how much you don't like it that is not how the world actually is. Coal mining and coal power production actually kills that many people right now.
If it was not coal mining, if they had robots digging all the coal, if they could magic coal out of the air, if they could put every worker into a full suit of body armour capable of withstanding a cave-in and if they could just run the power plants without the need for all that messy coal then yes the figure would be lower.
unfortunately here in the real world the numbers are what they are and no amount of wishing makes any difference.
It does though imply that since the very non-optimal local approach works fairly well a more optimal approach should be possible with better information and enough processing power.
NP hard doesn't stop being NP hard just because you distribute it across a lot of nodes.
So are you just saying that capitalism devotes more processing power to the problem?(every business owner rather than just a few hundred people in one office)
and gathers more and better information? (again using every business owner)
with the disadvantage that most of the nodes probably have very poor information and don't share.
that would seem to indicate that a centrally planned economy could work even better with enough processing power and enough information being gathered since more information could be gathered, shared and applied towards a goal.
If his friends can read it and understand what he's saying then he's spelling just fine, he's just not spelling in the dialect you're used to.
I know this is a bit old but I was just reading back and noticed your wonderfully informative posts.
I'm not quite clear: in this case did they actually program the T cells with an off switch/self destruct or is that just something they could potentially do? What kind of system could be used for the self destruct?
Unfortunatly the signal to noise ratio is utterly terrible.
there's so much genuinely bad advice that you'd gain close to nothing by taking it as a guide to life.
"Surely, the word tournament should be safe? (Activision would of course crawl right up my ass and use my balls for a punching bag)"
ok now I know you're doing nothing but talking out your ass.
X360 Abronium Tournament
PS Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002: Beybattle Tournament 2
NES Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament
GC BeyBlade VForce: Super Tournament Battle
GBC BeyBlade: Fighting Tournament
PC Bomberfun Tournament
GBA Bomberman Tournament
ARC Buriki One: World Grapple Tournament '99 in Tokyo
MOBILE Cannons Tournament
SNES ClayFighter: Tournament Edition
IP Golf Tournament
XBOX Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
GBA Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
PSP Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
PS2 Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
DS Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
PC Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
GC Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd
ARC Karate Chakun Yaraku Shanku: The Karate Tournament
GBA Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament
Konjiki no Gashbell!! Yuujou no Dengeki Dream Tag Tournament
CPC Lee Enfield: Tournament of Death
C64 Lee Enfield: Tournament of Death
GBA Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition
IP myPinballs Tournament System Scores
ARC Quake - Arcade Tournament Edition
PC Rumble Box: Tournament Edition
PSP Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament
IP Table Tennis Soul Tournament
SNES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
GEN Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
ARC Tekken Tag Tournament
PS2 Tekken Tag Tournament
ARC Tekken Tag Tournament 2
IP Tennis Tournament
ARC Tournament Arkanoid
LYNX Tournament Cyberball 2072
WII Tournament of Legends
IP Tournament Paddles
A trademark on "elder scrolls" is not a trademark on "scrolls"
Just to be clear: no matter what phone you have your cell company already knows exactly where you are and where you've been. there was an article a while back about someone filing a FOI request and finding that their cell company had their location for the last 6 months.
when someone goes missing the police often request the data.
After a student went missing from the local uni they contacted his mobile phone company who were able to show the approximate path he took along with the last known location, sadly a bridge popular for suicides.
the summary is too poorly written for words.
they didn't inject anyone with HIV.
It's like a summary saying "patient cured with cyanide" ....because one of the tools used to make the pills used cyanide in it's manufacture if you get the idea.
they used a modified retrovirus(in this case a modified harmless version of HIV) to genetically engineer a few of the patients own immune cells and then injected those cells back into the patient.
apparently the patients are still alive after almost a year so whatever the side effects they don't seem too bad.
who said anything about can't? I said it would be hard.
some things are easy to evolve a resistance to. some things are damned hard and involve the organisms crippling themselves in the process.
close but not exactly. Where antigens are normally markers on the cell walls this treatment has the advantage that it actually looks for dsRNA inside every cell: something your own immune system can't do.
What has this to do with the immune system? it's remarkable in that it's almost totally independent of the host immune system.
Actually from looking at how it works it'd probably be damned hard to evolve a resistance to it since it targets something extremely central to the virus life cycle so that may take quite a while.
Far harder than antibiotic resistance for bacteria
the thing is that looking into the way that it works: it's hard to see any straightforward way for most of these viruses to evolve a resistance.
It targets dsRNA which is very central to their life cycle.
it's the difference between an animal evolving a resistance to a poison and evolving a resistance to having it's internal organs ripped out.
How useful is Penicillin these days?
still fairly useful.Not as useful as it used to be but still good.
How much worse is MRSA compared to the weaker infections that people used to get?
no worse. it's just that we've become so accustomed to antibiotics working insanely well that when a handful of bugs become resistant they seem far scarier than their ancestors despite being no more deadly.
It's hard to comprehend how deadly bacterial infections were before Penicillin. Getting just a taste of it in the form of MRSA only seems scarier relative to how thing have been since penicillin.
It's no different than a letter writing campaign.
When groups organise one it disrupts service as people have to sift through the piles of envelopes for normal business letters yet that's not illegal.
You'd just spouting the standard "it's different on a computer" bullshit.
It is however a worthy area to research and examine.
People spend hours doing boring, monotonous tasks over and over in MMO's "for fun" and seem to honestly enjoy it in order to unwind after hours doing boring, monotonous tasks over and over in a job they hate.
I think the line where it become simple extortion is where, in the hypothetical scenario that you're perfectly innocent, the "settlement" offer is the wiser and cheaper option due to the likely expense of the threatened legal action even with an almost sure win.
the "natural leveling" mod is one of the most worthwhile out there.
I loved some of the ones I added, even the more subtle ones like the book and potion mods just added that little bit of richness to the world.
I made an ISO of my oblivion disk: so convenient, no messing around trying to find the CD, just mount an image.
I actually own 2 oblivion disks: one came as part of a pack.
the no DRM thing is a big plus for the elder scrolls series.
Is he being charged with anything?
If not then that actually seems a fairly reasonable response given that he asked permission before doing anything risky.
coal vs nuclear is like croad travel vs air travel.
coal kills vastly more people all the time but it only makes the local news or doesn't make the news at all. one more case of lung cancer isn't international news much like a couple of people dying in a car crash rarely makes the international news.
nuclear is vastly safer on average but in the incredibly rare case that it fails it makes international headlines for weeks. Even if people aren't killed any failure makes the international headlines much like how any big plane crash makes international news.
you're far more likely to die driving to the airport and you're far more likely to die from the emissions of a nearby coal plant than in a nuclear accident yet people are more afraid of flying and more afraid of nuclear because of the spectacle.
nuclear is extremely safe even counting worst case failures like Chernobyl if you look at it per terawatt and it's not unique in terms of making land unusable for decades or longer.
Personally I value lives more than land and the size of exclusion zones gradually shrink after an accident.
"Your scheme for "renewing" nuclear fuels is ... ?"
You wait for another supernova.
civil court, not criminal.
BSA bring you to court and accuse you of copyright violation: starting position 50:50
requirement for them to win: preponderance of the evidence. 50.01 : 49.99
a witness statement by a disgruntled former employee isn't worth much but it doesn't have to be.
So at this point the onus is on you to prove yourself innocent (civil court remember) and remember they've probably also used discovery to pull images of your servers and desktops. If someone has a copy of some freeware which says "free for non commercial use" then you're fucked. as now your claim that you don't have pirated software is worth less as you've now been shown to be lying.