Not that surprising - the placebo effect is probably based on the release of endomorphines, that is, pain-killing substances that are naturally produced by the body. They work by the same mechanism as morphine itself, so the morphine antagonist given also blocks the endomorphines, thereby blocking the placebo effect.
Satire aside, they have three things you need, actually - location, location, location. While after the Cold War, Keflavik Naval Air Station and the SOSUS sensors stretching from Iceland to Greenland and the UK have been more or less deactivated, you sure as hell wanna have access to this again as soon as control of the North Atlantic becomes a concern again. And you do not want to mess with the Vikings. Remember the Cod Wars - they didn't hesitate to take on the British Navy with their coastguard cutters in the dispute about their territorial waters, which, by chance, was actually resolved only when Iceland threatened to throw the US out of Keflavik. So, treat carefully there, if nothing else, they'll be after you with Viking battleaxes...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but they will not waken Cthulhu. R'lyeh, as any true Cultist knows, is located at 479S 12643W in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They might get overrun by some Shoggoths down there, but the Sleeper shall not awaken right now. The stars are not right.
It's surely not "the" litmus test - but it makes sense in that context, namely students being able to recite the main pathways of plant biochemistry but being unable to integrate that knowledge to answer this question. If you truly understand the Calvin cycle - the reaction series that takes care of carbon fixation from the air in plants - you should be aware where plant biomass comes from.
This is not about protecting the children from bad words, this is protecting the parents from having to admit that they are products of a society of racist arseholes and that, yes, the history of the USA pretty much sucks. Wonder why this shit comes out of Alabama...
I see where you are coming from with this idea - and if there were a quick, efficient mind-wipe giving the results you want, I would seriously consider it. But how long would it take for the old resentments to get replaced by new ones? We seem to have an unfortunate tendency to think in tribal terms, and I don't think a "reboot" would fix this. Wouldn't we have to repeat the mind-wipe yearly, if not monthly?
Like it or not, this is one of the reasons why copyright is not entirely a bad thing. Shit like this can only happen because the work is out of copyright. Would it still be protected, the author's estate could sue the hypocritical fuckers' arses from here to Alpha Centauri.
No, we would not be better off for it, at least in my opinion. Just ignoring our history of atrocities, dealing with traumata by choosing to forget will not make for a healthy society, but rather for a deeply repressed one. There is no easier way than looking at our past, recognizing the shit we did as such and extending our hands towards each other in spite of it.
The mortality of measles is about 0.3% - 3 kids in 1000 that contract it will die. Your sample size simply means nothing. That's why you leave epidemiology to the experts and don't recklessly endanger not only your kids but everyone they come in contact with by refusing vaccination. In my opinion, it should simply be mandated by law. Parents refusing to vaccinate are clearly unfit for their role, their kids are better off if their asshat parents get thrown into the slammer and the kids set up for adoption.
It is how the patent system is in its majority. If you are not into the field, you only see the most egregious examples of shitty patents because they make the news. For every single one of those, there are hundreds of decent ones you never hear about.
While getting rid of patent holding companies might be a worthwhile goal, this will not work. I make my living in the patent business - let me show you one example. One of our clients is an independent engineer developing air suspension systems for vehicles. Do you want to deny him the right to his inventions unless he starts producing bloody lorries himself?
I am writing patent applications for a living. Contrary to the popular slashdot meme, vagueness is not the slightest bit desirable in a well written patent. The objective is twofold: be as precise as possible, because vagueness will bit you in the arse in court, and cover as much ground as possible, to give the inventor the broadest protection you can get for him. Now, there's no doubt that there are a lot of shitty patents out there, especially in the field of software, and most especially in the USA. This however does not generalize to the whole field. I have the fortune of working in Europe, where our examiners would kick us out of the building with some of the shit that flies in the US - and actually they do, if we are unlucky enough to get a client who wants his US patent extended to the EU.
Just go with the general spirit of the open source community. Set up a chatbot that post "Fix it yourself if you do not like it" to every forum entry and don't give a shit about your users. Problem solved. Or not.
Indeed. Thanks for that link. I can't just imagine what this moment must have been for him. Amongst all the professional status reports, this short, casual, "Oh, that view is tremendous". THAT is why we go to space, folks.
This might just be a matter of personal taste - but the scroll bar doesn't do the same thing for me like flipping through a magazine does. I actually have no idea how to implement that function in the manner I like it - but if someone finds a way, he sure has a lot of market share to gain.
That's more of a problem with the user interface than with the medium, isn't it? I pretty much browse magazines the same way as you do, and I guess there are lots of people that are the same. Electronic media need some means of going over the content like that - but actually, in my opinion, tablets should be perfect for that.
If he wanted to construct a reductio ad absurdum out of this, his sig pretty much concealed the intent. If I mistinterpreted that, well, apologies to the cockroaches, posters, and every sentient and nonsentient entity hanging around here.
Might have something to do with you being a flaming asshole of a racist fuck with less brains than a cockroach, but hey, just go on believing they are after you for your superior insight.
Indeed. Tastiness as such is no survival trait - being tasty and efficiently farmable under the abomination that is the capitalist food production system is one. It's not only a thing with american breeds, we have the same problem in Europe, be it with cows, pigs or chicken. I am lucky enough to get my hands at some Schwäbisch-Hällisches pork directly from the farmer every now and then, though...
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Not that surprising - the placebo effect is probably based on the release of endomorphines, that is, pain-killing substances that are naturally produced by the body. They work by the same mechanism as morphine itself, so the morphine antagonist given also blocks the endomorphines, thereby blocking the placebo effect.
No shit indeed. They even called it the "Anticapitalist Protective Barrier". Highly successful at that, for a while...
Satire aside, they have three things you need, actually - location, location, location. While after the Cold War, Keflavik Naval Air Station and the SOSUS sensors stretching from Iceland to Greenland and the UK have been more or less deactivated, you sure as hell wanna have access to this again as soon as control of the North Atlantic becomes a concern again. And you do not want to mess with the Vikings. Remember the Cod Wars - they didn't hesitate to take on the British Navy with their coastguard cutters in the dispute about their territorial waters, which, by chance, was actually resolved only when Iceland threatened to throw the US out of Keflavik. So, treat carefully there, if nothing else, they'll be after you with Viking battleaxes...
Physical chemistry fail. Have a look at the phase diagram of carbon dioxide. Of course the freezing point is pressure dependent.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but they will not waken Cthulhu. R'lyeh, as any true Cultist knows, is located at 479S 12643W in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They might get overrun by some Shoggoths down there, but the Sleeper shall not awaken right now. The stars are not right.
It's surely not "the" litmus test - but it makes sense in that context, namely students being able to recite the main pathways of plant biochemistry but being unable to integrate that knowledge to answer this question. If you truly understand the Calvin cycle - the reaction series that takes care of carbon fixation from the air in plants - you should be aware where plant biomass comes from.
This is not about protecting the children from bad words, this is protecting the parents from having to admit that they are products of a society of racist arseholes and that, yes, the history of the USA pretty much sucks. Wonder why this shit comes out of Alabama...
I see where you are coming from with this idea - and if there were a quick, efficient mind-wipe giving the results you want, I would seriously consider it. But how long would it take for the old resentments to get replaced by new ones? We seem to have an unfortunate tendency to think in tribal terms, and I don't think a "reboot" would fix this. Wouldn't we have to repeat the mind-wipe yearly, if not monthly?
Like it or not, this is one of the reasons why copyright is not entirely a bad thing. Shit like this can only happen because the work is out of copyright. Would it still be protected, the author's estate could sue the hypocritical fuckers' arses from here to Alpha Centauri.
No, we would not be better off for it, at least in my opinion. Just ignoring our history of atrocities, dealing with traumata by choosing to forget will not make for a healthy society, but rather for a deeply repressed one. There is no easier way than looking at our past, recognizing the shit we did as such and extending our hands towards each other in spite of it.
The mortality of measles is about 0.3% - 3 kids in 1000 that contract it will die. Your sample size simply means nothing. That's why you leave epidemiology to the experts and don't recklessly endanger not only your kids but everyone they come in contact with by refusing vaccination. In my opinion, it should simply be mandated by law. Parents refusing to vaccinate are clearly unfit for their role, their kids are better off if their asshat parents get thrown into the slammer and the kids set up for adoption.
It is how the patent system is in its majority. If you are not into the field, you only see the most egregious examples of shitty patents because they make the news. For every single one of those, there are hundreds of decent ones you never hear about.
While getting rid of patent holding companies might be a worthwhile goal, this will not work. I make my living in the patent business - let me show you one example. One of our clients is an independent engineer developing air suspension systems for vehicles. Do you want to deny him the right to his inventions unless he starts producing bloody lorries himself?
I am writing patent applications for a living. Contrary to the popular slashdot meme, vagueness is not the slightest bit desirable in a well written patent. The objective is twofold: be as precise as possible, because vagueness will bit you in the arse in court, and cover as much ground as possible, to give the inventor the broadest protection you can get for him. Now, there's no doubt that there are a lot of shitty patents out there, especially in the field of software, and most especially in the USA. This however does not generalize to the whole field. I have the fortune of working in Europe, where our examiners would kick us out of the building with some of the shit that flies in the US - and actually they do, if we are unlucky enough to get a client who wants his US patent extended to the EU.
Just go with the general spirit of the open source community. Set up a chatbot that post "Fix it yourself if you do not like it" to every forum entry and don't give a shit about your users. Problem solved. Or not.
Indeed. Thanks for that link. I can't just imagine what this moment must have been for him. Amongst all the professional status reports, this short, casual, "Oh, that view is tremendous". THAT is why we go to space, folks.
This might just be a matter of personal taste - but the scroll bar doesn't do the same thing for me like flipping through a magazine does. I actually have no idea how to implement that function in the manner I like it - but if someone finds a way, he sure has a lot of market share to gain.
Well, so is my alarm clock. It prevents me from what I want to do - e.g. sleeping till noon.
That's more of a problem with the user interface than with the medium, isn't it? I pretty much browse magazines the same way as you do, and I guess there are lots of people that are the same. Electronic media need some means of going over the content like that - but actually, in my opinion, tablets should be perfect for that.
Belated how it may be, my apologies. Servus ;)
If he wanted to construct a reductio ad absurdum out of this, his sig pretty much concealed the intent. If I mistinterpreted that, well, apologies to the cockroaches, posters, and every sentient and nonsentient entity hanging around here.
Call it xenophobia then. I was imprecise, I give you that.
Oh, I apologize to the cockroaches. Also, see your sig.
Might have something to do with you being a flaming asshole of a racist fuck with less brains than a cockroach, but hey, just go on believing they are after you for your superior insight.
Indeed. Tastiness as such is no survival trait - being tasty and efficiently farmable under the abomination that is the capitalist food production system is one. It's not only a thing with american breeds, we have the same problem in Europe, be it with cows, pigs or chicken. I am lucky enough to get my hands at some Schwäbisch-Hällisches pork directly from the farmer every now and then, though...