It's the equivalent of viewing digital photos on your TV now (which my camera supports). It was probably overpriced at the time though. People didn't spend beyond their means back then.
OK, so the fluff says she's a medical doctor, not a PhD. But while she wasn't a practicing researcher, she did approach her unusual job with a scientific mind, balancing Mulder's "willingness to believe" with a constant demand for evidence and scientific rigor. She also gets points for being spiritual (Catholic) but not mixing it up with her scientific viewpoint of the world.
Also, she could apparently do a Southern blot in about 7 hours, when it take us mere mortals 2 days... (though that was in the X-Files TV show, not the movie)
He said that we are turning into "a tchotchke society," rich in frivolous gadgets but poor in literacy rates, infant mortality, etc.
That's because we can get brown people in distant countries to make our gadgets for us on the cheap. We can't do the same for health care or education. If the economic worm turned and those people weren't willing to work for so little, we'd find ourselves not only health-care-less but gadget-less as well! We are rich in shit, cheap crap which relies on the world's have-nots to remain cheap. A scheme this unbalanced can only last for so long.
No, let's not. Please do not harrass this guy, however much of a loser he is. He will not change his mind because of a few nerds yelling "You suck lol!" into his voice mail.
No, you're right, I didn't get that from your post. But the original AC's point was not just that YOU are not "safe", but that for those who are financially unable to save for a rainy day, the system is extremely harsh and unforgiving. In that light, your post came across as a smug "I've got mine".
You sure have thought of everything. Thank god everyone is a smug well-invested middle class worker with perfect job security, like you. Except those who are not, but hey, screw them right?
my feeling is this was pre-planned from the start and they broke no actual laws. They knew what they were doing.
If they knew from the start what they were doing (taking investors' money and pissing it away), then the law they broke is that against fraud - "A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain". Even if their goal was not to embezzle millions but only to enjoy the easy life for a while and put "Internet start up" on their CV's, it was still fraud if they did it intentionally.
In contrast, when my mother had breast cancer, whatever she needed, she got, and fast too. Surgery the day after tomorrow? No problem. Home care nurse? No problem. And no cash exchanged hands - my parents didn't have to sell their house to pay for it all. No system is perfect, but I have few complaints about Canada's public health care (now if only I could find a GP in this town who's taking patients...).
(not a reply intended for the original poster, who likely knows all this already)
Since the advent of the internet/WWW and high-quality desktop printing have made mailed-out paper journals less necessary, a number of free "open access journals" have recently arisen. A number of others are making content free a couple of months after publication.
The idea is that cost should not prohibit anyone from accessing scientific information, whether that person is an undergraduate in London or a professor in Nairobi.
Just because the Soviets couldn't build a proper power plant (the last set of Soviet MIGs were made of ALUMINUM and PLYWOOD, what do you expect?!) doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
From what I understand, the Soviets were aces at building good fighter planes (and other military hardware), and they would have used plywood and aluminum because they didn't feel the need to build them out of anything more sophisticated. The MiG-25 Foxbat (made of steel) had protruding rivet heads all over and still managed to reach Mach 2.8...
You think a few wind turbines will stop the eco catastrophe? With millions of cars, trucks, ships and airplanes still pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, with 2 billion Chinese mining and burning coal like it was going out of style, with all the greenhouse gas-producing industry, a few wind turbines to power homes mean NOTHING.
They are a good start, but by themselves aren't going to save anything.
If you like any art that even vaguely resembles porn, this tool probably won't be installed on your computer.
I am still very skeptical that this thing actually works. I mean, does it just look for "skin tone"? Because rumour has it that black people make porn too.
The amount of "genetic design" (to borrow the phrase from Blade Runner) required to make condors or any other species "better adapted to a new habitat" is simply not possible with today's knowledge of biology. Every aspect of the condor's physiology - lung function, flight muscles, temperature tolerance and body insulation, sight - is the result of millenia of "tweaking" via natural selection. We can currently barely get a single gene to express predictably in a new species, and that requires a lot of work and money to do. "Re-adapting" the condor is something a Victorian pigeon breeder would have much better luck at than a modern molecular biotechnologist - but he'd still need decades to do it, one generation at a time.
"Knockout mice" are altered to reduce or eliminate a single gene's function, in a simple binary fashion. They are an extremely reductionist technology, used to answer quite reductionist questions of how molecular pathways behave. They are, despite their cost and sophistication (and usefulness), a very crude development.
Your cat is as able to accept a dog kidney as you are. Which is to say, not at all. Even if you could find a vet who would do a cat kidney transplant, your cat will not be happy living on anti-rejection drugs anyway. Make him comfortable, put him to sleep when it is time. Such is the unavoidable tragedy of pet ownership.
"A teacher who inflates your grade isn't worth having."
Maybe the teacher was doing you a FAVOUR... Don't look a gift horse in the mouth - maybe s/he felt that despite the suspension you deserved that mark. They usually have some flexibility to adjust the basis for individiual grades, in extraordinary situations.
And what happens when analysis shows that those files appeared there only hours before the person was "snitched out"? And all at once? The police hate child porno freaks but they are not stupid.
The main message I got from this article is that some kids are doing INCREDIBLY ADVANCED projects, whatever the subject is.
From my experience in high school, and from working in a research lab for many years... the kids who do these projects usually have CONNECTIONS. They didn't just waltz up to a university researcher with a proposal, and get to work in a "real lab". They probably knew someone who knew someone. They got to do this work not just because they were bright, which I'm positive they are, but because they were able to get a foot in the door. I got expert advice (though no material support) on my flatworm regeneration project in Grade 10... because my mom was in the same local political org as a biology prof.
So the upside of all this is that high school science fairs are being exposed to a much higher quality of project than before. Which is very good - it gives them a better idea what real research is like.
The downside is that Joe(sephine) Blow regular HS student hasn't got a chance of even being noticed with their project that was done without access to a lab, or any funding. And hence... may not bother to do a project at all.
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Well, I always suspected the Nexus 1's would not look quite as good as Daryl Hannah...
It's the equivalent of viewing digital photos on your TV now (which my camera supports). It was probably overpriced at the time though. People didn't spend beyond their means back then.
OK, so the fluff says she's a medical doctor, not a PhD. But while she wasn't a practicing researcher, she did approach her unusual job with a scientific mind, balancing Mulder's "willingness to believe" with a constant demand for evidence and scientific rigor. She also gets points for being spiritual (Catholic) but not mixing it up with her scientific viewpoint of the world.
Also, she could apparently do a Southern blot in about 7 hours, when it take us mere mortals 2 days... (though that was in the X-Files TV show, not the movie)
... water tentacle raises YOU!
(I am so dreadfully sorry)
He said that we are turning into "a tchotchke society," rich in frivolous gadgets but poor in literacy rates, infant mortality, etc.
That's because we can get brown people in distant countries to make our gadgets for us on the cheap. We can't do the same for health care or education. If the economic worm turned and those people weren't willing to work for so little, we'd find ourselves not only health-care-less but gadget-less as well! We are rich in shit, cheap crap which relies on the world's have-nots to remain cheap. A scheme this unbalanced can only last for so long.
I'm pretty sure the stores don't have to PAY for these books... they just can't charge for them.
No, let's not. Please do not harrass this guy, however much of a loser he is. He will not change his mind because of a few nerds yelling "You suck lol!" into his voice mail.
No, you're right, I didn't get that from your post. But the original AC's point was not just that YOU are not "safe", but that for those who are financially unable to save for a rainy day, the system is extremely harsh and unforgiving. In that light, your post came across as a smug "I've got mine".
You sure have thought of everything. Thank god everyone is a smug well-invested middle class worker with perfect job security, like you. Except those who are not, but hey, screw them right?
my feeling is this was pre-planned from the start and they broke no actual laws. They knew what they were doing.
If they knew from the start what they were doing (taking investors' money and pissing it away), then the law they broke is that against fraud - "A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain". Even if their goal was not to embezzle millions but only to enjoy the easy life for a while and put "Internet start up" on their CV's, it was still fraud if they did it intentionally.
In contrast, when my mother had breast cancer, whatever she needed, she got, and fast too. Surgery the day after tomorrow? No problem. Home care nurse? No problem. And no cash exchanged hands - my parents didn't have to sell their house to pay for it all. No system is perfect, but I have few complaints about Canada's public health care (now if only I could find a GP in this town who's taking patients...).
And I thought I might have the best username-related gag for this one...
(not a reply intended for the original poster, who likely knows all this already)
Since the advent of the internet/WWW and high-quality desktop printing have made mailed-out paper journals less necessary, a number of free "open access journals" have recently arisen. A number of others are making content free a couple of months after publication.
The idea is that cost should not prohibit anyone from accessing scientific information, whether that person is an undergraduate in London or a professor in Nairobi.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/
http://www.wsis-si.org/oa-facts.html
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node3302.html
Just because the Soviets couldn't build a proper power plant (the last set of Soviet MIGs were made of ALUMINUM and PLYWOOD, what do you expect?!) doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
From what I understand, the Soviets were aces at building good fighter planes (and other military hardware), and they would have used plywood and aluminum because they didn't feel the need to build them out of anything more sophisticated. The MiG-25 Foxbat (made of steel) had protruding rivet heads all over and still managed to reach Mach 2.8...
You think a few wind turbines will stop the eco catastrophe? With millions of cars, trucks, ships and airplanes still pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, with 2 billion Chinese mining and burning coal like it was going out of style, with all the greenhouse gas-producing industry, a few wind turbines to power homes mean NOTHING.
They are a good start, but by themselves aren't going to save anything.
"Wind farms cause women to have five periods a month and give them brain cancer."
:O And the brain cancer too.
Jeez, that sounds scary!
If you like any art that even vaguely resembles porn, this tool probably won't be installed on your computer.
I am still very skeptical that this thing actually works. I mean, does it just look for "skin tone"? Because rumour has it that black people make porn too.
His original point being that he's a dumb-fark homophobe who thinks gays are child molesters? I'll miss that thanks.
The amount of "genetic design" (to borrow the phrase from Blade Runner) required to make condors or any other species "better adapted to a new habitat" is simply not possible with today's knowledge of biology. Every aspect of the condor's physiology - lung function, flight muscles, temperature tolerance and body insulation, sight - is the result of millenia of "tweaking" via natural selection. We can currently barely get a single gene to express predictably in a new species, and that requires a lot of work and money to do. "Re-adapting" the condor is something a Victorian pigeon breeder would have much better luck at than a modern molecular biotechnologist - but he'd still need decades to do it, one generation at a time.
"Knockout mice" are altered to reduce or eliminate a single gene's function, in a simple binary fashion. They are an extremely reductionist technology, used to answer quite reductionist questions of how molecular pathways behave. They are, despite their cost and sophistication (and usefulness), a very crude development.
You're not joking... are you?
Your cat is as able to accept a dog kidney as you are. Which is to say, not at all. Even if you could find a vet who would do a cat kidney transplant, your cat will not be happy living on anti-rejection drugs anyway. Make him comfortable, put him to sleep when it is time. Such is the unavoidable tragedy of pet ownership.
"the term the Japanese use is tsukaikomu."
Not just gomi?
"What does "That would be as fuck as a pile of acorns" mean? ;)
"A teacher who inflates your grade isn't worth having."
Maybe the teacher was doing you a FAVOUR... Don't look a gift horse in the mouth - maybe s/he felt that despite the suspension you deserved that mark. They usually have some flexibility to adjust the basis for individiual grades, in extraordinary situations.
And what happens when analysis shows that those files appeared there only hours before the person was "snitched out"? And all at once? The police hate child porno freaks but they are not stupid.
The main message I got from this article is that some kids are doing INCREDIBLY ADVANCED projects, whatever the subject is.
From my experience in high school, and from working in a research lab for many years... the kids who do these projects usually have CONNECTIONS. They didn't just waltz up to a university researcher with a proposal, and get to work in a "real lab". They probably knew someone who knew someone. They got to do this work not just because they were bright, which I'm positive they are, but because they were able to get a foot in the door. I got expert advice (though no material support) on my flatworm regeneration project in Grade 10... because my mom was in the same local political org as a biology prof.
So the upside of all this is that high school science fairs are being exposed to a much higher quality of project than before. Which is very good - it gives them a better idea what real research is like.
The downside is that Joe(sephine) Blow regular HS student hasn't got a chance of even being noticed with their project that was done without access to a lab, or any funding. And hence... may not bother to do a project at all.