Nothing wrong with preventative medicine, problem is the human body, including the cancers it gives rise to have such a bloody huge variability that differentiating the killer-cancer from the not-killer cancer.
We need better detection methods, to both detect and differentiate.
We need better treatment. Jumping the shark with the scalpel is old fashioned. Cancer vaccines(tailored based on sampled cancer from patient itself) would be a fantastic method if proved efficient. Although general sweeping anti-cancer vaccines would be even better as it may greatly decrease the need for screening.
Unfortunately, immunostimulant treatments get less attention than they deserve despite their absolutely enormous poential(you can vaccinate against almost anything, toxins, cancer, bacteria, parasites. And that's only the classic aspect of immunostimulation, proliferating and guiding(or warding against) immune cells could do wonders)
It's a fair bit more complex than that.
Genetic damage accumulates _all_ the time, however you have DNA-repair mechanisms of rather amazing complexity that constantly patch things back into their original shape, and in the case they fail they still face down the checkpoints in the mitotic cycle that halts cell divison until damage is either repair or the self-destruct/apoptosis kicks in.
And there's more, if a cell starts to produce foreign proteins these will appear in fragments on its surface, which the immune system will latch onto, and then the cell will face down the subtly named Natural Killer cells which have methods to force the aptotic machinery into action even if the intial stages have somehow mutated into uselessness.
Also, cancer that grows fast will displace itself to the point where necrotic lesions appear, these will result in inflammation, a state usually not very conductive to growth, which may self-limit the cancer(not to mention that inflammation means the presence of immune mediators, a lot of them).
As for chemo, it's not that black and white, there's a very large difference between cancer cancer and chemo and chemo. Certain lymphoma(enormous proliferation of immune cells, circulating) have very close to 100% survival rate, if you enter chemo treatment. Testicle cancer also have a very good prognosis even if metastatized. For a perspective, take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy_protocol
Just wait until we find the metastases in his female fans. Oh god...
We need someone to do an emergency homestectomy! Someone call the US air force nuclear medicine department, we'll need a few tons of radioisotopes to ensure we can do a sucessful thermoablative intervention.
Obviously everything ends when zombies/enraged citizens/chinese soliders torches everything, but not before that. Why if it did, how would the contractors get any money, and less importantly we'd have increasing unemployment and that's a big no no.
How can you formulate arguments when your reading comprehension is so off-the-fucking-charts abysmal, or are you just build a particularly bad strawman?
They work backwards as in reaching a conclusion, then doing the work required to reach it. Whatever people said or did 100 years ago is entirely fucking irrelevant, but because you obviously think Arrhenius was a genius that paid attention to all variables and could not be wrong I take it you also agree with his pro-eugenics views, which of course if intelligence based would have you gone from the gene pool sooner rather than later.
Any other misunderstanding or intentional misinterpretation or other mangled argument you'd like to make?
The CO2 percentage of earths atmosphere is 0.039%, clearly this enormous concentration marginalizes all other factors.
Also the reason you've never heard or read of skeptics debating is because you've never bothered to actually look at what they say. You're just taking your moral high ground and shout denalist at everyone that disagree.
Natural climate variation have always been happening, that we could be in a period of generally increasing temperatures should be a position anyone but the most dense skeptic should be willing to accept. The issue then is if the trend is exaggerated by UHI or other instrument-related problems, latest data apparently shows it's not, I don't have any problem with that either. But that still doesn't mean that CO2 is responsible, it might be a slight aggrevator of the temperature increase but probably more in line to it's concentration in the atmosphere. But the researchers works backwards assuming it is responsible for all of it and cooks the models to give such results through some arcane mechanisms.
Another atmospheric phenomena, that of the ozone holes over the poles, have recently been shifting to be considered a natural phenomena, present since prehistoric times, instead of caused by CFC. Of course, unlike CFC it's pretty close to entirely fucking impossible to ban CO2 emissions without destroying modern society, but that's a rant I'll save for later.
I'm sorry, but judges are stupid, otherwise they wouldn't make decisions like these, and if they were intolerant of asses they wouldn't stand themself.
But I guess you think they are the voice of God and we should just lay down and spread our buttcheeks for them.
What they should do instead is spread some small-sized copyrighted content(or parts of larger works) in Base64 on every single website that allows posting of comments/text and to report this terrible infrignment to both the judge, studios and BT. So that if BT actually complies with the demands they end up blocking 90% of the internet.
The latest, to my knowledge, in conspiracy circles is a false flag alien attack, as a fix to both the economy and to grab power.
Now I don't know about powergrabbing, but given the previous display of incomptetent economy fixes it doesn't sound all that unlikely they'd try this one too.
I was serious although I might've worded it somewhat provocative. The DART example is impressive, the SHINE also. I don't however find anything detailing why LISP was chosen for any of the projects, was it because LISP have some inherent advantage for the specific applications, or because the projects were started during a time when everyone was told that LISP was the holy grail of programming and it was just the obvious thing to do?
He probably did a lot of good things. LISP however is a nightmarish construct made to entertain academics with academic constructs, which it may do exceedingly well, but for practical real-world applications the usefulness of LISP is long gone if it ever existed beyond a rudimentary level.
Then either enjoy your dirty office or reconsider their actual value. Or even better, reconsider the value of the CEO, subtract $500k from his annual bonus and hire a cleaning lady that you pay $2000 per month, keep her employed for 20 years. Or invest the ceo-cut money into a cleaner-fund to ensure a decent life for all your employees.
But of course, the american way is to slap a debt on the lady and then offer her a $800/month job that ensures she'll be paying you the rest of her life, from both of her 8 hour jobs, not because the company couldn't afford to give a better wage but because the management are psychopats.
You just had to try to be smart and go confirm yourself to be retarded too, didn't you?
Accounting for urban heat island effect should logically be done by adjusting the value down, overadjusting even further down are unlikely to result in a larger value.
Voting should be for ideas, concept and policy change. I don't give a fuck about suited persons lying to me on TV, I care if the Change happens at the end of the day, not slogans or fancy campaigns. If I vote for infrastructure maintenance/repair and the Aryan Brotherhood goes out and patch the road for me/my community, then they should get paid with taxpayers money as according to my vote.
Context aware voting, open 24/7 continuous to distribute the resources and fluidly change policy is what we should've had since a decade ago. Instead we're stuck with the write a name on clay shards concept that arguably worked better when it WAS FIRST INVENTED IN ATHENS OVER TWO-THOUSAND-FIVE-HUNDRED-MOTHERFUCKING YEARS AGO
I didn't say that we should reduce the wages of surgeons to minimum, wage. I hardly said anything about skilled labour. My point was that even low-skill labour should be compensated at a decent rate, even if there might be a surplus of people willing to work for less. If we cut off all regulation and swapped out workers for those willing to take the job for less every time offered a situation would rapidly form where you go to having to chose between food on the table or rent, escalating further to milk for the cerals or the cerals themself. And this wonderful circle of human misery would save the employer how much really?
This is especially important as productivity is increasing all the time, what this means eventually is that a hundred persons working can supply all living demands of five hundred thousand not working. If those five hundred thousand chose milk instead of ceral due to poverty we find a drop in ceral demand and we have the wonderful escalation of positive feedback feeding the supply-demand death-spiral. Ending in enormous wasted capacity due to policy and greed overrriding reason and (un?)common sense.
Reward those that are skilled but don't step on those less fortunate, and for gods sake don't jump on their heads while they lie in the gutter.
Low tier jobs are usually really fucking boring and should not have absolutely bottom-tier pay unless really effortless. Generous pay to keep morale decent and generally ensure social(and economic, and mental) stability should anyway always take precedence over shaving away benefits to those who need them the most in the name of maximizing profits(by adding another 0.0001% to the company surplus, save those money by dropping the CEO wage instead).
You may refer to it as generous, might be, but I'd more prefer to consider it to simply be humane, the ice-cold greed that somehow have become modus operandi in most of the world is nothing short of pathological.
There's very few Illiterate people in Finland, the education system is top notch. Also, corruption is very low.
Maybe they plan forward. When enraged crowds torch all of the US they'll still have their plant in a stable enviroment.
So UHI, warmer temperatures in cities and steeper trends in urban weather stations, when considered totally normal and not corrected, results in a smaller warming trend when summed for total.
That my dear friend. Is totally fucking retarded, and speaks volumes about the reliability of the data processing the temperature data goes through. It also makes you dumb as a bag of hammers for missing the -50 apparent magnitude logical flaw.
It was probably caused by man.
By measuring temperatures in dumb-ass places, the BBC link in the article sums it up nicely with a picture of a weather station next to an airplane, and you could argue that jet exhaust and black tarmacs are natural, but you can't argue that jet exhaust and black tarmacs are representative for the earth surface in average.
A graph, is always a very shitty representation of reality.
Use a VGA/DVI interception hardware device to save to external storage. People will be stuck thinking in the box so you'll have no problems whatsoever as long as you don't save or move any data "in-system".
Please don't forget to mention how SureView is awsome and ensures 100% data security while at it to keep the blinders on.
Sputnik only need to go up with precision into orbit, if you want to return your astronaut you need a precision re-entry vehicle. And well, ballistic missiles doesn't need to go into orbit, just achive a ballistic trajectory, if you however have orbital capability you suddenly can develop weapons that goes under the fancy name of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System which to be fair, scares the shit out of me even though I live in a region that would never be a nuke target, and if you don't feel a bit concerned about what practically is an instant strike nuclear weapon then you're probably lobotomized to some degree.
All that have no ballistic nuclear missile cravings.
Orbital rockets can easily be repurposed to ICBMs
Home brewed nuclear reactors are a good step on the way to manufacturing nukes.
Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind is, when combined with the above, a good starting condition for world war 3 or at the very least an actual nuclear war.
Not to be paranoid or anything, but it's pretty damn obvious that they want some serious military tools as a byproduct of their Glorious National Proudness Programs.
He didn't remove or break anything, had he not handed over the files nothing would've ever been noticed, if your fat ass found a sofa with no TV you'd be furiously enraged. You suck at analogies.
More proper would be that he hands you a copy of your home-made porn collection. In which case you should not try to push any legal action against him due to being nice as either he could release the material, or someone reacting to your dickheadedness could exploit their way into said porn collection and release it to the internet when you draw attention with your legal case.
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Nothing wrong with preventative medicine, problem is the human body, including the cancers it gives rise to have such a bloody huge variability that differentiating the killer-cancer from the not-killer cancer.
We need better detection methods, to both detect and differentiate.
We need better treatment. Jumping the shark with the scalpel is old fashioned. Cancer vaccines(tailored based on sampled cancer from patient itself) would be a fantastic method if proved efficient. Although general sweeping anti-cancer vaccines would be even better as it may greatly decrease the need for screening.
Unfortunately, immunostimulant treatments get less attention than they deserve despite their absolutely enormous poential(you can vaccinate against almost anything, toxins, cancer, bacteria, parasites. And that's only the classic aspect of immunostimulation, proliferating and guiding(or warding against) immune cells could do wonders)
It's a fair bit more complex than that.
Genetic damage accumulates _all_ the time, however you have DNA-repair mechanisms of rather amazing complexity that constantly patch things back into their original shape, and in the case they fail they still face down the checkpoints in the mitotic cycle that halts cell divison until damage is either repair or the self-destruct/apoptosis kicks in.
And there's more, if a cell starts to produce foreign proteins these will appear in fragments on its surface, which the immune system will latch onto, and then the cell will face down the subtly named Natural Killer cells which have methods to force the aptotic machinery into action even if the intial stages have somehow mutated into uselessness.
Also, cancer that grows fast will displace itself to the point where necrotic lesions appear, these will result in inflammation, a state usually not very conductive to growth, which may self-limit the cancer(not to mention that inflammation means the presence of immune mediators, a lot of them).
As for chemo, it's not that black and white, there's a very large difference between cancer cancer and chemo and chemo. Certain lymphoma(enormous proliferation of immune cells, circulating) have very close to 100% survival rate, if you enter chemo treatment. Testicle cancer also have a very good prognosis even if metastatized. For a perspective, take a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy_protocol
Just wait until we find the metastases in his female fans. Oh god...
We need someone to do an emergency homestectomy! Someone call the US air force nuclear medicine department, we'll need a few tons of radioisotopes to ensure we can do a sucessful thermoablative intervention.
Obviously everything ends when zombies/enraged citizens/chinese soliders torches everything, but not before that.
Why if it did, how would the contractors get any money, and less importantly we'd have increasing unemployment and that's a big no no.
How can you formulate arguments when your reading comprehension is so off-the-fucking-charts abysmal, or are you just build a particularly bad strawman?
They work backwards as in reaching a conclusion, then doing the work required to reach it. Whatever people said or did 100 years ago is entirely fucking irrelevant, but because you obviously think Arrhenius was a genius that paid attention to all variables and could not be wrong I take it you also agree with his pro-eugenics views, which of course if intelligence based would have you gone from the gene pool sooner rather than later.
Any other misunderstanding or intentional misinterpretation or other mangled argument you'd like to make?
The CO2 percentage of earths atmosphere is 0.039%, clearly this enormous concentration marginalizes all other factors.
Also the reason you've never heard or read of skeptics debating is because you've never bothered to actually look at what they say. You're just taking your moral high ground and shout denalist at everyone that disagree.
Natural climate variation have always been happening, that we could be in a period of generally increasing temperatures should be a position anyone but the most dense skeptic should be willing to accept. The issue then is if the trend is exaggerated by UHI or other instrument-related problems, latest data apparently shows it's not, I don't have any problem with that either.
But that still doesn't mean that CO2 is responsible, it might be a slight aggrevator of the temperature increase but probably more in line to it's concentration in the atmosphere. But the researchers works backwards assuming it is responsible for all of it and cooks the models to give such results through some arcane mechanisms.
Another atmospheric phenomena, that of the ozone holes over the poles, have recently been shifting to be considered a natural phenomena, present since prehistoric times, instead of caused by CFC. Of course, unlike CFC it's pretty close to entirely fucking impossible to ban CO2 emissions without destroying modern society, but that's a rant I'll save for later.
In before the CO2 cavalry calling me a denialist.
I'm sorry, but judges are stupid, otherwise they wouldn't make decisions like these, and if they were intolerant of asses they wouldn't stand themself.
But I guess you think they are the voice of God and we should just lay down and spread our buttcheeks for them.
What they should do instead is spread some small-sized copyrighted content(or parts of larger works) in Base64 on every single website that allows posting of comments/text and to report this terrible infrignment to both the judge, studios and BT. So that if BT actually complies with the demands they end up blocking 90% of the internet.
The latest, to my knowledge, in conspiracy circles is a false flag alien attack, as a fix to both the economy and to grab power.
Now I don't know about powergrabbing, but given the previous display of incomptetent economy fixes it doesn't sound all that unlikely they'd try this one too.
I hope you see the problems with a programming language that requires a spiritual ascension after a decade+ journey?
I was serious although I might've worded it somewhat provocative. The DART example is impressive, the SHINE also.
I don't however find anything detailing why LISP was chosen for any of the projects, was it because LISP have some inherent advantage for the specific applications, or because the projects were started during a time when everyone was told that LISP was the holy grail of programming and it was just the obvious thing to do?
He probably did a lot of good things. LISP however is a nightmarish construct made to entertain academics with academic constructs, which it may do exceedingly well, but for practical real-world applications the usefulness of LISP is long gone if it ever existed beyond a rudimentary level.
Then either enjoy your dirty office or reconsider their actual value.
Or even better, reconsider the value of the CEO, subtract $500k from his annual bonus and hire a cleaning lady that you pay $2000 per month, keep her employed for 20 years. Or invest the ceo-cut money into a cleaner-fund to ensure a decent life for all your employees.
But of course, the american way is to slap a debt on the lady and then offer her a $800/month job that ensures she'll be paying you the rest of her life, from both of her 8 hour jobs, not because the company couldn't afford to give a better wage but because the management are psychopats.
The extended version of the democracy experiment is about to be considered a catastrophe too.
You just had to try to be smart and go confirm yourself to be retarded too, didn't you?
Accounting for urban heat island effect should logically be done by adjusting the value down, overadjusting even further down are unlikely to result in a larger value.
Moron.
Voting should be for ideas, concept and policy change. I don't give a fuck about suited persons lying to me on TV, I care if the Change happens at the end of the day, not slogans or fancy campaigns. If I vote for infrastructure maintenance/repair and the Aryan Brotherhood goes out and patch the road for me/my community, then they should get paid with taxpayers money as according to my vote.
Context aware voting, open 24/7 continuous to distribute the resources and fluidly change policy is what we should've had since a decade ago. Instead we're stuck with the write a name on clay shards concept that arguably worked better when it WAS FIRST INVENTED IN ATHENS OVER TWO-THOUSAND-FIVE-HUNDRED-MOTHERFUCKING YEARS AGO
I didn't say that we should reduce the wages of surgeons to minimum, wage. I hardly said anything about skilled labour.
My point was that even low-skill labour should be compensated at a decent rate, even if there might be a surplus of people willing to work for less. If we cut off all regulation and swapped out workers for those willing to take the job for less every time offered a situation would rapidly form where you go to having to chose between food on the table or rent, escalating further to milk for the cerals or the cerals themself. And this wonderful circle of human misery would save the employer how much really?
This is especially important as productivity is increasing all the time, what this means eventually is that a hundred persons working can supply all living demands of five hundred thousand not working. If those five hundred thousand chose milk instead of ceral due to poverty we find a drop in ceral demand and we have the wonderful escalation of positive feedback feeding the supply-demand death-spiral. Ending in enormous wasted capacity due to policy and greed overrriding reason and (un?)common sense.
Reward those that are skilled but don't step on those less fortunate, and for gods sake don't jump on their heads while they lie in the gutter.
Low tier jobs are usually really fucking boring and should not have absolutely bottom-tier pay unless really effortless. Generous pay to keep morale decent and generally ensure social(and economic, and mental) stability should anyway always take precedence over shaving away benefits to those who need them the most in the name of maximizing profits(by adding another 0.0001% to the company surplus, save those money by dropping the CEO wage instead).
You may refer to it as generous, might be, but I'd more prefer to consider it to simply be humane, the ice-cold greed that somehow have become modus operandi in most of the world is nothing short of pathological.
There's very few Illiterate people in Finland, the education system is top notch. Also, corruption is very low.
Maybe they plan forward. When enraged crowds torch all of the US they'll still have their plant in a stable enviroment.
So UHI, warmer temperatures in cities and steeper trends in urban weather stations, when considered totally normal and not corrected, results in a smaller warming trend when summed for total.
That my dear friend. Is totally fucking retarded, and speaks volumes about the reliability of the data processing the temperature data goes through. It also makes you dumb as a bag of hammers for missing the -50 apparent magnitude logical flaw.
It was probably caused by man.
By measuring temperatures in dumb-ass places, the BBC link in the article sums it up nicely with a picture of a weather station next to an airplane, and you could argue that jet exhaust and black tarmacs are natural, but you can't argue that jet exhaust and black tarmacs are representative for the earth surface in average.
A graph, is always a very shitty representation of reality.
Use a VGA/DVI interception hardware device to save to external storage. People will be stuck thinking in the box so you'll have no problems whatsoever as long as you don't save or move any data "in-system".
Please don't forget to mention how SureView is awsome and ensures 100% data security while at it to keep the blinders on.
Sputnik only need to go up with precision into orbit, if you want to return your astronaut you need a precision re-entry vehicle.
And well, ballistic missiles doesn't need to go into orbit, just achive a ballistic trajectory, if you however have orbital capability you suddenly can develop weapons that goes under the fancy name of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System which to be fair, scares the shit out of me even though I live in a region that would never be a nuke target, and if you don't feel a bit concerned about what practically is an instant strike nuclear weapon then you're probably lobotomized to some degree.
All that have no ballistic nuclear missile cravings.
Orbital rockets can easily be repurposed to ICBMs
Home brewed nuclear reactors are a good step on the way to manufacturing nukes.
Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind is, when combined with the above, a good starting condition for world war 3 or at the very least an actual nuclear war.
Not to be paranoid or anything, but it's pretty damn obvious that they want some serious military tools as a byproduct of their Glorious National Proudness Programs.
He didn't remove or break anything, had he not handed over the files nothing would've ever been noticed, if your fat ass found a sofa with no TV you'd be furiously enraged. You suck at analogies.
More proper would be that he hands you a copy of your home-made porn collection. In which case you should not try to push any legal action against him due to being nice as either he could release the material, or someone reacting to your dickheadedness could exploit their way into said porn collection and release it to the internet when you draw attention with your legal case.