Technically, I do. But the GP seems to be mightily concerned about legislation that would restrict them in that matter. Gotta wonder why. Besides, the veil covering the racism in his rant was very, very, thin, so I allowed myself to counter-rant there.
As I said in reply to another poster, yes - I have been thinking more on the military side of things. Actually, I don't want to think along the lines you propose at all, but in the end, if terror is all you want, yes, sure, things like contamination of the water supply will do the trick - even just a handful of victims will be enough to spread panic.
If you ever grew some bacterial cultures, especially one of the more obscure ones, apart from bog-standard lab-strain E. coli, you should have learned that the little buggers are quite some little princesses. At our lab, we used to joke about needing a "micropsychiatrist" to persuade them to grow as intended.
Quivering in fear that someone might take away your god given right to ass rape any minority, because you happen to be in a position of power, are you? Seriously, your ilk's definition of freedom scares me.
Thanks for implying the usual "they are only doing it for the grants"-meme in the summary, timothy. It's been soo popular with the science-haters around here lately, I can see why you would want to retain that group of customers.
Oh come on, let the guys just have some fun. If this leads you to question the sanity of the biologists involved, have a look at the gene naming schemata in Drosophila flies...
Let me just point at cheap date, a gene that imposes heightened alcohol sensitive on the flies; or perhaps the ken and barbie genes, mutations in which cause lack of external genitalia. Then there is superman, a mutation that causes extra male genitalia in the plant Arabidopsis. Naturally, it is suppressed by the kryptonite gene. Leaving the genitalia business, there is also embargo in Drosophila, a mutation in which stops nuclear export...
Heh, well, when I used to live in San Diego, the majority of douchebags seemed to be heading off to Tijuana on July 4th - maybe that was already after the alcohol ban on the beaches. Only been in town for a one-year project, about a decade ago.
I wouldn't call it common. Rioting happens, but hooliganism is really a completely separate thing from normal fandom getting out of hand. I live close to a major soccer stadium here, and really, I haven't seen things getting out of hand often. It happens on certain matches, when the rivaling fanbases are known to have a large hooligan component, but the police are quite heavy on prevention around here. Can feel a bit weird when you take the subway home from work and get off at your station, only to face a row of hundred policemen in full riot gear, preparing to keep the fans that'll arrive with the next train separated by club affiliation on different sides of the platform. These days, they are pretty experienced in handling things before they get out of hand.
The interesting question to explore is why a concept that seems to work pretty well in Switzerland does not work in California. I, personally, have no idea.
Yes, it is a willing agreement between people. Then again, the power distribution between an individual and a multinational corporation is not exactly symmetric, particularly in an economy with today's unemployment rates. I think one of the sides might need a tad bit more protection than the other here.
The naturalistic fallacy once more in the GPs post. Seems to be quite popular lately. You can't derive an ethical rule from the fact that something happens in a certain way in "nature":
Admittedly, I have been thinking more military than terrorist there (and I am kinda thankful for the fact that I don't automatically think in terrorist terms...). Sure - even a single case of an obviously bioweapon-induced illness will cause more terror than I want to imagine. My point was more about military weaponization, the sort you'd use for area denial purposes.
The FOIA request for the mails was put up when she actually was in the government. They just managed to drag the process along until these day. Telling in itself.
Don't mind it. Remember that it is perfectly fine to have scientist's e-mails stolen by russian hackers and make up a completely random "Climategate" out of it. All peachy. But if the teabagger's favourite MILF has to comply to a FOIA, the libertards are supposed to get their panties in a twist. It's just natural.
As a trained biochemist, I'd say, yes, it is somewhat easy to get a culture going of whatever weaponizable germ you want - media are pretty standard and well published, the lab equipment will put you down a couple of grands, basic clue will keep you alive. However, actually weaponizing a strain you cultured - I have to admit that this is well beyond me (and I prefer it that way). For effect, you'll need to form a well-distributing aerosol, in a manner that germs survive, and that is an art in itself.
Thanks for the info. It seems quite similar to NMR then, regarding the signal to noise problem - we are dealing with population differences of 999.999 to 1.000.000 between ground states and excited states here. At least we can exclude most of the external noise, though...
You skip trials in your country in case someone confesses, for whatever reason? Or just if "the facts are clear"? Nice rule of law you got there, mate.
Thanks for proving my point. Preponderance of guilt. it really does hurt to get hit at home as someone who spends more than the rest of the world combined on the military, does it? Well, at least you can cry your eyes out now over an isolated incident that vanishes in the death statistics, even a decade after the fact, while simultaneously fapping off over your military prowess, yes?
Fascinating. The alternative to an unlawful execution on foreign territory would be "leveling the place" in your words, then? I leave it to the reader to determine where the "axis of evil" has its origin.
I am pretty sure I actually mean sentience here. At the core, sentience is defined by having a notion of "self" - it starts with recognizing yourself in a mirror. With that recognition of self comes the recognition of consequences of your own action - doesn't it?
To add some info to the parent, prions are responsible for BSE in cattle, Scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, CJD and Kuru in man, and couple of inherited, rather uncommon diseases in men, too - like fatal familar insomnia and weird stuff like that. Foot and Mouth is indeed viral, not prionic.
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Technically, I do. But the GP seems to be mightily concerned about legislation that would restrict them in that matter. Gotta wonder why. Besides, the veil covering the racism in his rant was very, very, thin, so I allowed myself to counter-rant there.
As I said in reply to another poster, yes - I have been thinking more on the military side of things. Actually, I don't want to think along the lines you propose at all, but in the end, if terror is all you want, yes, sure, things like contamination of the water supply will do the trick - even just a handful of victims will be enough to spread panic.
If you ever grew some bacterial cultures, especially one of the more obscure ones, apart from bog-standard lab-strain E. coli, you should have learned that the little buggers are quite some little princesses. At our lab, we used to joke about needing a "micropsychiatrist" to persuade them to grow as intended.
Quivering in fear that someone might take away your god given right to ass rape any minority, because you happen to be in a position of power, are you? Seriously, your ilk's definition of freedom scares me.
Thanks for implying the usual "they are only doing it for the grants"-meme in the summary, timothy. It's been soo popular with the science-haters around here lately, I can see why you would want to retain that group of customers.
Fine. Spongiforma bracae-quadratae then.
Oh come on, let the guys just have some fun. If this leads you to question the sanity of the biologists involved, have a look at the gene naming schemata in Drosophila flies...
Let me just point at cheap date, a gene that imposes heightened alcohol sensitive on the flies; or perhaps the ken and barbie genes, mutations in which cause lack of external genitalia. Then there is superman, a mutation that causes extra male genitalia in the plant Arabidopsis. Naturally, it is suppressed by the kryptonite gene. Leaving the genitalia business, there is also embargo in Drosophila, a mutation in which stops nuclear export...
Heh, well, when I used to live in San Diego, the majority of douchebags seemed to be heading off to Tijuana on July 4th - maybe that was already after the alcohol ban on the beaches. Only been in town for a one-year project, about a decade ago.
I wouldn't call it common. Rioting happens, but hooliganism is really a completely separate thing from normal fandom getting out of hand. I live close to a major soccer stadium here, and really, I haven't seen things getting out of hand often. It happens on certain matches, when the rivaling fanbases are known to have a large hooligan component, but the police are quite heavy on prevention around here. Can feel a bit weird when you take the subway home from work and get off at your station, only to face a row of hundred policemen in full riot gear, preparing to keep the fans that'll arrive with the next train separated by club affiliation on different sides of the platform. These days, they are pretty experienced in handling things before they get out of hand.
The interesting question to explore is why a concept that seems to work pretty well in Switzerland does not work in California. I, personally, have no idea.
You are on the path to enlightenment, young apprentice. The true master would have answered "Moo.", though.
Yes, it is a willing agreement between people. Then again, the power distribution between an individual and a multinational corporation is not exactly symmetric, particularly in an economy with today's unemployment rates. I think one of the sides might need a tad bit more protection than the other here.
The naturalistic fallacy once more in the GPs post. Seems to be quite popular lately. You can't derive an ethical rule from the fact that something happens in a certain way in "nature":
Admittedly, I have been thinking more military than terrorist there (and I am kinda thankful for the fact that I don't automatically think in terrorist terms...). Sure - even a single case of an obviously bioweapon-induced illness will cause more terror than I want to imagine. My point was more about military weaponization, the sort you'd use for area denial purposes.
The FOIA request for the mails was put up when she actually was in the government. They just managed to drag the process along until these day. Telling in itself.
Don't mind it. Remember that it is perfectly fine to have scientist's e-mails stolen by russian hackers and make up a completely random "Climategate" out of it. All peachy. But if the teabagger's favourite MILF has to comply to a FOIA, the libertards are supposed to get their panties in a twist. It's just natural.
An art best forgotten indeed.
As a trained biochemist, I'd say, yes, it is somewhat easy to get a culture going of whatever weaponizable germ you want - media are pretty standard and well published, the lab equipment will put you down a couple of grands, basic clue will keep you alive. However, actually weaponizing a strain you cultured - I have to admit that this is well beyond me (and I prefer it that way). For effect, you'll need to form a well-distributing aerosol, in a manner that germs survive, and that is an art in itself.
Personally, I don't give a rat's arse about milk as such, but you can pry my raw milk cheese from my cold, dead hands.
Thanks for the info. It seems quite similar to NMR then, regarding the signal to noise problem - we are dealing with population differences of 999.999 to 1.000.000 between ground states and excited states here. At least we can exclude most of the external noise, though...
You skip trials in your country in case someone confesses, for whatever reason? Or just if "the facts are clear"? Nice rule of law you got there, mate.
Thanks for proving my point. Preponderance of guilt. it really does hurt to get hit at home as someone who spends more than the rest of the world combined on the military, does it? Well, at least you can cry your eyes out now over an isolated incident that vanishes in the death statistics, even a decade after the fact, while simultaneously fapping off over your military prowess, yes?
Fascinating. The alternative to an unlawful execution on foreign territory would be "leveling the place" in your words, then? I leave it to the reader to determine where the "axis of evil" has its origin.
I am pretty sure I actually mean sentience here. At the core, sentience is defined by having a notion of "self" - it starts with recognizing yourself in a mirror. With that recognition of self comes the recognition of consequences of your own action - doesn't it?
To add some info to the parent, prions are responsible for BSE in cattle, Scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, CJD and Kuru in man, and couple of inherited, rather uncommon diseases in men, too - like fatal familar insomnia and weird stuff like that. Foot and Mouth is indeed viral, not prionic.