The best fruit fly trap is a bottle with a little bit of red wine left in it. The little buggers are crazy after the stuff, get in and can't escape. We used wine traps in the lab to hold the escaped fruit flies in check. Of course, you gotta renew the trap every couple of days...
As a German, I think you value us too highly - we have the same crappy mass culture and anti-intellectualism around here, our own share of numb-nuts reveling in their stupidity. Just have a look at our largest newspaper, the BILD-Zeitung. I didn't see much difference regarding the average citizen between my time working in the US and back home. Granted, I didn't exactly work in deep Redneckistan, but still...
The secret is only in wrecking the environment and abusing your workers if you are in the cheap-ass consumer product market. Germany gets around that problem by producing high-quality, comparatively low-quantity goods as machining tools, scientific instruments, medical technology, power stations, pharmaceuticals and stuff like that. And, cars, of course. All the easily mass production goods we used to make (e.g. textiles in the region where I am from) are long since outsourced to Asia, too.
You don't have to go to Malaysia for that - everything on your list, except possibly for pancreas, can be had at my butcher round the corner here in Germany, and is part of the regional cuisine. All that and kidneys, calf thymus, brains and whatnot. Is the idea that innards are somewhat disgusting an American thing or something? The more common ones like liver are found on basically every menu around here, and lung is considered the local speciality ("Saures Lüngerl" - sour lung):
Fry sliced carrots, celery, onions, parsley root and leek in butter, add the finely sliced calf lung and fry shortly, dust with some flour then add calf fond and vinegar, season with salt, pepper, a bit of sugar, clovers, one or two bay leaves and cook for 60-80 minutes. Let it cool down and store it in the fridge for a day before reheating, reseasoning (especially with some more vinegar to get the right sour taste) and serving. Serve with dumplings. Great stuff. The important thing is to remove all the hard cartilaginous parts of the lung when slicing it.
Depends on what you are looking for in the animal - if the chemistry is not overly important, the most used method nowadays is probably gassing with carbon dioxide, which is a quite humane death. If you are interested in chemical/physiological details, decapitation is sometimes used. Never seen any lab where something like in your story would happen, if not for ethical reasons, simply for scientific control and reproducibility.
It's very deep in terms of sonar technology, I guess. The article talks about having to use ROV-mounted sonar equipment, so they apparently could not get good resolution reflections with a towed sonar from the ship. I suppose the thermal or haline layering of seawater creates too much diffraction at this depth to get a high-resolution sonograph from the surface.
On reviewing that scene I stand corrected. Too late around here and too much beer... The conclusion stands, though - those cracks will probably make up the main storyline for this season.
It's off to a good start, I agree. As for the cracks - the Doctor mentioned that the prisoner opened them, but I guess that might not be all behind it. Those cracks will be with us for a while, I suppose.
Where I live, we do have a national ID for decades and biometric passports are being phased in at the moment. Despite all the "Papiere bitte!" paranoia, in the last couple of years, the only people I had to actually show my ID were not evil gubbermint thugs controlling me on every street corner, but rather private security services making sure that I was who I claimed to be when I entered sensitive areas like R&D departments of some of my clients. Hell, I don't even need to show my passport when I leave the country. Total gubbermint control looks different to me.
You are free to roll your troops out of here. It is not as if they serve any purpose after the cold war ended, they overstayed their welcome. Oh, and you might wanna check how much cash we are sinking into Afghanistan, mostly to clean up your mess behind you.
Ahh, yes - the Howard Philip Lovecraft Historical Society. They also recorded some very nice Lovecraftian Christmas, err... Solstice Carols with the Dagon Tabernacle Choir. Here is an example. Come to think of it, that is the only physical CD I bought in the last 3 years, the guys deserve it. Check out their homepage, if you don't know them. They also made an absolutely brilliant silent movie titled "Call of Cthulhu".
Actually, to me it looks rather like a memetic mind-virus, that takes over your brain... I find myself mumbling incoherent but strangely poetic sequences since I first read that post. Almost as if. In coHerent things ancient of beauty green in the blue. Ah the maelStrom, ideas. Days in Past longing for the Wichita Vortex Sutra... *COUGH* No, can't be. All is well. Ignore me.
I, and most German geeks i know, do call their box "Rechner", which is literally "computer". I like it - it has that flair of ancient geekery that makes you think of huge relais-driven dusty machinery.
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Are the automated troll-bots finally becoming sentient? This one has me scared...
You are of course right about the probabilities involved, but you can't generalize that these generalizations will make you right when it matters. They also have a non-zero probability to make you horribly wrong when it matters. While I might agree that politicians can't be trusted, this is no license to stop evaluating their statements and simply file them categorically under "wrong". And besides, politics is not made up by average politicians. There is a distribution, so you gotta evaluate them individually - with all due skepticism of course.
There sure are those people you describe, but I don't even think they make up the majority of the "Warmers", if I have to use that term. I hope you realized that I do not fall into that camp. But that brings us to the core problem of the whole debate - the science of climate change and the politics of climate change tend to merge into one tangled mess. Scientific arguments should filter into the political debate, but not the other way around. Unfortunately, this separation is not happening.
Hehe, I guess we keep off each others lawn then and build a decent fence between them, for those make good neighbors. We still can shout at each other from the porch and exchange a friendly shotgun blast every now and then, though;)
But that's the kind of political apathy I mean. You don't shape politics only by voting - you shape it by talking to your friends, your coworkers, your acquaintances and hope that something sticks. If that doesn't work anymore, we are indeed truly and thoroughly fucked. I refuse to believe that we are at this point already, though. Let me put forth the fact that the Pirate Party made it into some European parliaments already as a sign of hope.
Ignoring all arguments and data brought forth so far, then pointing at the null hypothesis and calling it a day is called skepticism these days? Guess we are indeed doomed.
And, even if that would be true, would that be the fault of the elected politicians or the fault of the electorate? And part of which group are you? *Sigh* Learn, they do not...
Weirdly, the atmosphere does not consist of layers of gasses sorted by their molecular weight. The stuff gets up there because their thermal motion overcomes gravitation largely, so there is no layering and the mixture is largely homogenous. Then, no one posits that the IR radiation is ONLY directed back to the surface. In fact, every models assumes an isotropic emission by CO2 - which, however, leads to a reduction in net energy flux to space, because PART of it is directed back to the ground. If those are your arguments in "science land", I'd suggest you actually travel to "science land" first yourself and acquaint yourself with the local customs.
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The best fruit fly trap is a bottle with a little bit of red wine left in it. The little buggers are crazy after the stuff, get in and can't escape. We used wine traps in the lab to hold the escaped fruit flies in check. Of course, you gotta renew the trap every couple of days...
As a German, I think you value us too highly - we have the same crappy mass culture and anti-intellectualism around here, our own share of numb-nuts reveling in their stupidity. Just have a look at our largest newspaper, the BILD-Zeitung. I didn't see much difference regarding the average citizen between my time working in the US and back home. Granted, I didn't exactly work in deep Redneckistan, but still...
The secret is only in wrecking the environment and abusing your workers if you are in the cheap-ass consumer product market. Germany gets around that problem by producing high-quality, comparatively low-quantity goods as machining tools, scientific instruments, medical technology, power stations, pharmaceuticals and stuff like that. And, cars, of course. All the easily mass production goods we used to make (e.g. textiles in the region where I am from) are long since outsourced to Asia, too.
You don't have to go to Malaysia for that - everything on your list, except possibly for pancreas, can be had at my butcher round the corner here in Germany, and is part of the regional cuisine. All that and kidneys, calf thymus, brains and whatnot. Is the idea that innards are somewhat disgusting an American thing or something? The more common ones like liver are found on basically every menu around here, and lung is considered the local speciality ("Saures Lüngerl" - sour lung):
Fry sliced carrots, celery, onions, parsley root and leek in butter, add the finely sliced calf lung and fry shortly, dust with some flour then add calf fond and vinegar, season with salt, pepper, a bit of sugar, clovers, one or two bay leaves and cook for 60-80 minutes. Let it cool down and store it in the fridge for a day before reheating, reseasoning (especially with some more vinegar to get the right sour taste) and serving. Serve with dumplings. Great stuff. The important thing is to remove all the hard cartilaginous parts of the lung when slicing it.
Depends on what you are looking for in the animal - if the chemistry is not overly important, the most used method nowadays is probably gassing with carbon dioxide, which is a quite humane death. If you are interested in chemical/physiological details, decapitation is sometimes used. Never seen any lab where something like in your story would happen, if not for ethical reasons, simply for scientific control and reproducibility.
It's very deep in terms of sonar technology, I guess. The article talks about having to use ROV-mounted sonar equipment, so they apparently could not get good resolution reflections with a towed sonar from the ship. I suppose the thermal or haline layering of seawater creates too much diffraction at this depth to get a high-resolution sonograph from the surface.
On reviewing that scene I stand corrected. Too late around here and too much beer... The conclusion stands, though - those cracks will probably make up the main storyline for this season.
It's off to a good start, I agree. As for the cracks - the Doctor mentioned that the prisoner opened them, but I guess that might not be all behind it. Those cracks will be with us for a while, I suppose.
I am sure your RealDoll appreciates your sophistication. Keep it up, pal ;)
Where I live, we do have a national ID for decades and biometric passports are being phased in at the moment. Despite all the "Papiere bitte!" paranoia, in the last couple of years, the only people I had to actually show my ID were not evil gubbermint thugs controlling me on every street corner, but rather private security services making sure that I was who I claimed to be when I entered sensitive areas like R&D departments of some of my clients. Hell, I don't even need to show my passport when I leave the country. Total gubbermint control looks different to me.
You are free to roll your troops out of here. It is not as if they serve any purpose after the cold war ended, they overstayed their welcome. Oh, and you might wanna check how much cash we are sinking into Afghanistan, mostly to clean up your mess behind you.
Ahh, yes - the Howard Philip Lovecraft Historical Society. They also recorded some very nice Lovecraftian Christmas, err... Solstice Carols with the Dagon Tabernacle Choir. Here is an example. Come to think of it, that is the only physical CD I bought in the last 3 years, the guys deserve it. Check out their homepage, if you don't know them. They also made an absolutely brilliant silent movie titled "Call of Cthulhu".
Actually, to me it looks rather like a memetic mind-virus, that takes over your brain... I find myself mumbling incoherent but strangely poetic sequences since I first read that post. Almost as if. In coHerent things ancient of beauty green in the blue. Ah the maelStrom, ideas. Days in Past longing for the Wichita Vortex Sutra... *COUGH* No, can't be. All is well. Ignore me.
Ehm.. Alcohol? But they mostly got that right, too.
I, and most German geeks i know, do call their box "Rechner", which is literally "computer". I like it - it has that flair of ancient geekery that makes you think of huge relais-driven dusty machinery.
Itself backwards, don't want to feel and some of the Subscribers. Please BSD managed to make balance is struck, correct network users. This is area. It is the Creek, abysmal A need to play You. The tireless Morning. Now I have reciprocating Usenet is roughly Parts of you are like they are Come OF AmERICA) today, By fundamental will recall that it obligated to care networking test. and committees Core team. They a way to spend Pooper. Nothing survival prospects want them there. successes with the or make loud noises on an endeavour steadily fucking 'first post' Operating systems
Are the automated troll-bots finally becoming sentient? This one has me scared...
You are of course right about the probabilities involved, but you can't generalize that these generalizations will make you right when it matters. They also have a non-zero probability to make you horribly wrong when it matters. While I might agree that politicians can't be trusted, this is no license to stop evaluating their statements and simply file them categorically under "wrong". And besides, politics is not made up by average politicians. There is a distribution, so you gotta evaluate them individually - with all due skepticism of course.
There sure are those people you describe, but I don't even think they make up the majority of the "Warmers", if I have to use that term. I hope you realized that I do not fall into that camp. But that brings us to the core problem of the whole debate - the science of climate change and the politics of climate change tend to merge into one tangled mess. Scientific arguments should filter into the political debate, but not the other way around. Unfortunately, this separation is not happening.
Mate, the decreased oxygen content at altitude is a function of decreased density, not of changed atmospheric composition. Please, educate yourself.
Hehe, I guess we keep off each others lawn then and build a decent fence between them, for those make good neighbors. We still can shout at each other from the porch and exchange a friendly shotgun blast every now and then, though ;)
But that's the kind of political apathy I mean. You don't shape politics only by voting - you shape it by talking to your friends, your coworkers, your acquaintances and hope that something sticks. If that doesn't work anymore, we are indeed truly and thoroughly fucked. I refuse to believe that we are at this point already, though. Let me put forth the fact that the Pirate Party made it into some European parliaments already as a sign of hope.
Ignoring all arguments and data brought forth so far, then pointing at the null hypothesis and calling it a day is called skepticism these days? Guess we are indeed doomed.
And, even if that would be true, would that be the fault of the elected politicians or the fault of the electorate? And part of which group are you? *Sigh* Learn, they do not...
Weirdly, the atmosphere does not consist of layers of gasses sorted by their molecular weight. The stuff gets up there because their thermal motion overcomes gravitation largely, so there is no layering and the mixture is largely homogenous. Then, no one posits that the IR radiation is ONLY directed back to the surface. In fact, every models assumes an isotropic emission by CO2 - which, however, leads to a reduction in net energy flux to space, because PART of it is directed back to the ground. If those are your arguments in "science land", I'd suggest you actually travel to "science land" first yourself and acquaint yourself with the local customs.
What did I just say regarding my lawn? EH? EH? You really seem to feel lucky, PUNK! ;)