can be accomplished by someone with a University level of Biochem knowledge and a $100 USD kit that is sold to undergraduate students.
Yes, it's relatively easy to transform bacteria, and the kits to do it are much cheaper than they once were. But... What are you going to transform them WITH? Your $100 US suddenly doesn't seem like so much when you have to clone the virulence-promoting genes from a second organism into the proper transformation vector (DNA which allows replication and incorporation of your new gene into the bacterial genome), grow all these organisms in sterile conditions where regular old E. coli won't eat them for breakfast, to say nothing of pipetting, centrifuging, warming and all the other trivial-sounding but surprisingly expensive procedures that comprise modern molecular biology.
"Rogue states" and terrorists have always had access to these technologies, and the money to buy them. It's not the amateur little guy operating on the cheap you need to worry about. You're 100% correct in mentioning the Soviet Union's bioweapons programs - the leftovers of Cold War research and the current U.S. military's research are far more of a threat now than Al-Qaeda or Iran!
To paraphrase Han Solo, "Bioweapons manufacture ain't like dusting crops, kid!"
I recommend downgrading all versions of Soldier to the basic "naked man with stick" functionality which was immensely popular and robust for a good portion of the version history of Soldier. There'd be a lot less problems in the long run, as long as all users comply with the downgrade.
... than saying "well, we're making these things freaking expensive, and thus anybody looking at the bottom line (businesses, and home consumers) will think twice about buying one rather than a mid-end laptop". When your "core demographic" is toy-greedy executives and bleeding-edge hardware geeks, you don't sell so many units.
Make hardware CHEAP (and reliable), and people will buy it. It's that simple.
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"Some issues just don't arrive too. February, for example, still hasn't arrived here."
My dad canceled his subscription almost a year ago and the Geographic continues to arrive monthly to this day. Now we know where those magazines come from:-)
Well, I meant that teachers keep an eye on the kids in the school setting, when parents can't. Of course it's not their job after your kid leaves school!
OK, I agree that pr0n is, in theory, fun and not inherently evil. You or I can surf for naughty pictures and so on with few harmful effects. But, let's be honest, I wouldn't really want a child to view some of the stuff I see.
Why? Context. I understand that the "freaky weird" stuff is a part of natural human sexuality - hermaphrodites & dwarves need love too after all! As a well-adjusted adult, I understand that group sex is just another sexual option if done safely and sanely. But... a child might not. I think kids need to go through a GOOD "mommy and daddy love each other very much and sometimes..." talk, or a GOOD sex ed program (none of this abstinence-only Jesus bullshiat), before they start seeing the less vanilla stuff that's out there. Kids are really impressionable - it's better for them to develop their own ideas and preferences about sexuality, rather than be heavily influenced by whatever variety of pornography they're first exposed to.
Which is not to say that censorship isn't evil. Parents/teachers have to do their best to guide kids' online activity and that's about the best we can justly expect in our society.
a German WWII idea called the "Saenger Amerikabomber" which was an idea to develop a manned spcae plane that would be able to reach the continental United States and drop a bomb before completing one sub orbit by skippping off the atmosphere and then returning to Germany.
Wow. That's even loonier than most of the really loony Nazi experimental weapons programs (at least if done using WW2 tech). I imagine it never left the "drawn on napkin" concept stage, thank god. Eventually, we're going to find out they were planning to build a cyber-Hitler with gatling guns for arms, aren't we...
You just can't open the door and get in and go like in GTA, if you had to jimmy the lock or window, then break the column, then use a screwdriver on the ignition, or hot wire it, then I would be intrigued by the game more.
I think the point of GTA is that your character is the kind of person who can do these things as easily as turning on their television. Just like the Quake/Doom guy can load his shotgun one-handed while running to avoid fireballs/rockets. You're not playing as YOU ("clumsy game geek"), you're playing as HIM ("hardened veteran", or in the case of GTA, "career criminal"). Plus, how many times do you want to sit through the "hotwiring" animation in one game anyway?
I'm not sure I'm too keen on anybody keeping track of my Google searches...
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clearly it has become OK to screw customers if you can trick them.
It's ALWAYS been "ok" to do that, as long as the screwing doesn't extend outside the law, and you can keep potential customers from finding out how you're screwing your current customers. This is why it's SO important for people to do a little research before buying things. That's one of the consumer's roles in keeping the "free market" free (too bad gov't and industry are avoiding theirs, despite much talk about the joys of capitalism).
Hell, for that matter I don't even remember having a strong visual image of any of the characters. It's a shortcoming I know, but I tend to form a better "internal" (ie. their feelings and motivations) image of book characters than external. Even a distinctive character like William Gibson's Molly/Sally just ends up in my head as a shorthand version - "chick in black leather with embedded mirrorshades" - which suffices to let me mentally picture the action of the book.
"Human Greed" certainly qualifies as a "force of nature". Like a hurricane, asteroid strike or massive forest fire, it results in species extinctions, rapid irreversible small-scale habitat changes and semi-permanent global climate changes... Things that make ya go hmm...
It dazzles me how Paul Allen's net worth went up 1 billion dollars. Does anyone know what he does, besides own Microsoft stock, that would increase his value that much?
I *am* in Canada, Guelph ON to be exact. I hope you're right about the boomer faculty, otherwise it'll get worse before it gets better... But you are right, a salary goes a lot farther when you don't have to buy health insurance. And there's lots of cool research going on in Canada. But post-docs are still peons.
"As for the hours, yeah. Science is hard dude, what were you expecting? So I guess you need to ask yourself why you are interested?"
Well, personally, grad school taught me that working long hours is usually pointless (as the evening wears on you become less productive) and that to be honest, I'm not the sort of person who gets serious jollies from being in the lab. I can enjoy the work but only if it's balanced with time to socialize, rest and relax. Otherwise it becomes a grim grind, bitter and joyless. I've seen too many post-docs in the lab all weekend when they had a spouse and kids they should have been with.
I have a M.Sc. I'm under 30, with no family yet. I see lots of my elders, with ~4-5 years more post-grad education and subsequent lab experience than me, making THE SAME $$ THAT I DO. Now, while this isn't a problem for ME, it's really bad for them. Post-doc'ing has devolved from a training ground for future tenure-track academics to being slave labor with a possible carrot dangled years in your future. There is less tenure-track hiring these days due to budgetary constraints, and a glut of existing faculty who are not very close to retirement. so the odds of any one of these hardworking, bitter and impoverished post-docs "finishing their training" are pretty small. But in the meantime, hey, there's lots of work to be done, for somebody else's research program, for a tech's salary (but not a tech's 9-5 hours: most post-docs keep grad student hours and are around much more than 40 h/week!). So what if your spouse has to work in another city doing THEIR post-doc, so what if you can't afford a car? Boy, that Ph.D. sure paid off!
... you'd know that schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder are not the same thing. Sure, schizophrenics have voices in their heads, but the voices often aren't friendly ones...
Yes they will. The current climate of cold-hearted neo-fascism surrounding corporate "rights" allows large entities (companies or multi-company trusts) to obtain pointlessly harsh judgements against small entities (us), while elected public officials either do nothing or watch with glee. A few college "kids" (really: adults with potential to contribute to society... unless they're financially ruined at the age of 22) will make no difference, especially once the corporate-owned media are through twisting the story around. I say it's time to start the killing.
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Well, she's certainly going to be the most popular geek girl on the block after having a pic where you can see up her skirt posted on SLASHDOT!
can be accomplished by someone with a University level of Biochem knowledge and a $100 USD kit that is sold to undergraduate students.
Yes, it's relatively easy to transform bacteria, and the kits to do it are much cheaper than they once were. But... What are you going to transform them WITH? Your $100 US suddenly doesn't seem like so much when you have to clone the virulence-promoting genes from a second organism into the proper transformation vector (DNA which allows replication and incorporation of your new gene into the bacterial genome), grow all these organisms in sterile conditions where regular old E. coli won't eat them for breakfast, to say nothing of pipetting, centrifuging, warming and all the other trivial-sounding but surprisingly expensive procedures that comprise modern molecular biology.
"Rogue states" and terrorists have always had access to these technologies, and the money to buy them. It's not the amateur little guy operating on the cheap you need to worry about. You're 100% correct in mentioning the Soviet Union's bioweapons programs - the leftovers of Cold War research and the current U.S. military's research are far more of a threat now than Al-Qaeda or Iran!
To paraphrase Han Solo, "Bioweapons manufacture ain't like dusting crops, kid!"
I recommend downgrading all versions of Soldier to the basic "naked man with stick" functionality which was immensely popular and robust for a good portion of the version history of Soldier. There'd be a lot less problems in the long run, as long as all users comply with the downgrade.
Go to enough loud rock concerts and voila! your Ear Mod is complete, and you can't hear that fan noise (or anything below 80 dB) anymore!
... than saying "well, we're making these things freaking expensive, and thus anybody looking at the bottom line (businesses, and home consumers) will think twice about buying one rather than a mid-end laptop". When your "core demographic" is toy-greedy executives and bleeding-edge hardware geeks, you don't sell so many units.
Make hardware CHEAP (and reliable), and people will buy it. It's that simple.
"Some issues just don't arrive too. February, for example, still hasn't arrived here."
:-)
My dad canceled his subscription almost a year ago and the Geographic continues to arrive monthly to this day. Now we know where those magazines come from
So if I keep playing and get through them, I may be able to face real zombies a little easier?
Not unless you play them in Smell-o-Vision. Zombies don't just LOOK bad after all.
Well, I meant that teachers keep an eye on the kids in the school setting, when parents can't. Of course it's not their job after your kid leaves school!
OK, I agree that pr0n is, in theory, fun and not inherently evil. You or I can surf for naughty pictures and so on with few harmful effects. But, let's be honest, I wouldn't really want a child to view some of the stuff I see.
Why? Context. I understand that the "freaky weird" stuff is a part of natural human sexuality - hermaphrodites & dwarves need love too after all! As a well-adjusted adult, I understand that group sex is just another sexual option if done safely and sanely. But... a child might not. I think kids need to go through a GOOD "mommy and daddy love each other very much and sometimes..." talk, or a GOOD sex ed program (none of this abstinence-only Jesus bullshiat), before they start seeing the less vanilla stuff that's out there. Kids are really impressionable - it's better for them to develop their own ideas and preferences about sexuality, rather than be heavily influenced by whatever variety of pornography they're first exposed to.
Which is not to say that censorship isn't evil. Parents/teachers have to do their best to guide kids' online activity and that's about the best we can justly expect in our society.
a German WWII idea called the "Saenger Amerikabomber" which was an idea to develop a manned spcae plane that would be able to reach the continental United States and drop a bomb before completing one sub orbit by skippping off the atmosphere and then returning to Germany.
Wow. That's even loonier than most of the really loony Nazi experimental weapons programs (at least if done using WW2 tech). I imagine it never left the "drawn on napkin" concept stage, thank god. Eventually, we're going to find out they were planning to build a cyber-Hitler with gatling guns for arms, aren't we...
the vast majority of the people in the company can't even go to, say, Google
Productivity must be at an all-time high.
You just can't open the door and get in and go like in GTA, if you had to jimmy the lock or window, then break the column, then use a screwdriver on the ignition, or hot wire it, then I would be intrigued by the game more.
I think the point of GTA is that your character is the kind of person who can do these things as easily as turning on their television. Just like the Quake/Doom guy can load his shotgun one-handed while running to avoid fireballs/rockets. You're not playing as YOU ("clumsy game geek"), you're playing as HIM ("hardened veteran", or in the case of GTA, "career criminal"). Plus, how many times do you want to sit through the "hotwiring" animation in one game anyway?
I'm not sure I'm too keen on anybody keeping track of my Google searches...
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clearly it has become OK to screw customers if you can trick them.
It's ALWAYS been "ok" to do that, as long as the screwing doesn't extend outside the law, and you can keep potential customers from finding out how you're screwing your current customers. This is why it's SO important for people to do a little research before buying things. That's one of the consumer's roles in keeping the "free market" free (too bad gov't and industry are avoiding theirs, despite much talk about the joys of capitalism).
working computer that runs in a bucket full of cooked oatmeal
You could make it in the shape of a petrified Natalie Portman, and run it in a bucket of hot grits... Grits are sort of like oatmeal.
Hell, for that matter I don't even remember having a strong visual image of any of the characters. It's a shortcoming I know, but I tend to form a better "internal" (ie. their feelings and motivations) image of book characters than external. Even a distinctive character like William Gibson's Molly/Sally just ends up in my head as a shorthand version - "chick in black leather with embedded mirrorshades" - which suffices to let me mentally picture the action of the book.
"Human Greed" certainly qualifies as a "force of nature". Like a hurricane, asteroid strike or massive forest fire, it results in species extinctions, rapid irreversible small-scale habitat changes and semi-permanent global climate changes... Things that make ya go hmm...
It dazzles me how Paul Allen's net worth went up 1 billion dollars. Does anyone know what he does, besides own Microsoft stock, that would increase his value that much?
Two words: Bavarian Illuminati.
From the CIA World Factbook entry for the United States...
Well, they'd know. They've been diligently helping the rich for what, almost 60 years now?
I *am* in Canada, Guelph ON to be exact. I hope you're right about the boomer faculty, otherwise it'll get worse before it gets better... But you are right, a salary goes a lot farther when you don't have to buy health insurance. And there's lots of cool research going on in Canada. But post-docs are still peons.
"As for the hours, yeah. Science is hard dude, what were you expecting? So I guess you need to ask yourself why you are interested?"
Well, personally, grad school taught me that working long hours is usually pointless (as the evening wears on you become less productive) and that to be honest, I'm not the sort of person who gets serious jollies from being in the lab. I can enjoy the work but only if it's balanced with time to socialize, rest and relax. Otherwise it becomes a grim grind, bitter and joyless. I've seen too many post-docs in the lab all weekend when they had a spouse and kids they should have been with.
I have a M.Sc. I'm under 30, with no family yet. I see lots of my elders, with ~4-5 years more post-grad education and subsequent lab experience than me, making THE SAME $$ THAT I DO. Now, while this isn't a problem for ME, it's really bad for them. Post-doc'ing has devolved from a training ground for future tenure-track academics to being slave labor with a possible carrot dangled years in your future. There is less tenure-track hiring these days due to budgetary constraints, and a glut of existing faculty who are not very close to retirement. so the odds of any one of these hardworking, bitter and impoverished post-docs "finishing their training" are pretty small. But in the meantime, hey, there's lots of work to be done, for somebody else's research program, for a tech's salary (but not a tech's 9-5 hours: most post-docs keep grad student hours and are around much more than 40 h/week!). So what if your spouse has to work in another city doing THEIR post-doc, so what if you can't afford a car? Boy, that Ph.D. sure paid off!
... you'd know that schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder are not the same thing. Sure, schizophrenics have voices in their heads, but the voices often aren't friendly ones...
...UI contributions, CCP (sic), or any of the other dozens of ways the Canadian government picks our pockets clean.
You've obviously never been unemployed or retired. Enjoy the social safety net, it sure beats the alternative, which is Dickensian England.
Yes they will. The current climate of cold-hearted neo-fascism surrounding corporate "rights" allows large entities (companies or multi-company trusts) to obtain pointlessly harsh judgements against small entities (us), while elected public officials either do nothing or watch with glee. A few college "kids" (really: adults with potential to contribute to society... unless they're financially ruined at the age of 22) will make no difference, especially once the corporate-owned media are through twisting the story around. I say it's time to start the killing.