I just wish they'd stop asking "Do you believe in evolution?" when some stupid journalist questions a politician. It's just makes people think evolution is a belief. Really, valid ways to put in effect get the same info would be questions like "Do you think evolution is valid?" or "Do you accept that evolution is a valid scientific theory?" I mean when you ask the first question my impression is that you don't really get science. (Not a surprise since I think alot of journalists are basically scientifically illiterate.) What it actually makes me think is that the person asking it isn't so much pro evolution because they're really for science but because conservatives hate it. (Which is a stupid reason to be for a scientific theory.)
That when they hear the name of the head of NASA they think, "Isn't that the guy who created Jeopardy?" (Admittedly the way NASA is run that would actually make sense.)
I mean yes up close 3d stereoscopic visuals is nice and all but once things are even a little bit away I don't think you eyes use parallax to gauge distance anyway. (I don't know of the top of my head what the actual distance where parallax no longer works in the real world for human vision.) Admittedly I'm kind of jaded on this, they tried it in the 80's with TV when I was a kid and it didn't work that well. They tried it on the NES and SMS and it didn't work that well. (The SMS had a cool liquid crystal shutter system though.) I saw versions on the PC in the 90's which didn't work that well. So I'd figure this one would be kind of pointless.
I mean they're venomous as well. (Well at least some species.) These guys can actually pump it in (keep you minds out of the gutter) instead of it just flowing out? (I said keep your minds out of the gutter.)
The first off is the the problem is that in order to do that is that they have to be "Just-so Evil". By that I mean that they have to be evil enough to screw regular people over. However when it comes to screwing each other over all of a sudden they become honest for no real reason.(Since they could either try to take over the whole market for themselves or even collude at first and milk out some extra money by selling more than their quota when no one is looking.) Also there's the problem that if a cure existed cancer rates would probably go up since nobody is going to bother avoiding cancer if they can take a pill and be cure. (So big deal if you make less money on a single regiment to cure a patient. You'll make it up on the repeat business anyway. So go ahead, lay out in the sun all day or whatever. In the end it'll get fixed no matter how many times you get cancer.) The final problem I see with the "conspiracy" idea is that of the suppliment. (Which is weird that they could "forget" that given how common they are the US.) The idea is pretty simple, if you had a safe and effective cure for cancer that was resonably priced one way to make alot of money would be to just make it part of a vitamin pill and charge a little more for the pill. (I mean suppose there was a vitamin on the market that cost a $1 a day to take. One effect of this is that as long as you take it you can never get cancer. Anybody want to take a guess how many people in the Western world would be willing to pay for that? Hell, I would just knowing how one can die in a matter of days after the discovery of some cancers.)
Hell, I've got a degree in CS and really I only studied it by mistake since I confused it with Software Engineering. (Honestly alot of CS isn't even about computers, it's about information and if it can be processed, when can it be processed and how efficiently.)
Well I know that but you'd think with all those acomplishments they could get around to giving him the award while he was alive.(He did live to be 85, it's not like he did that in his 20's and died suddenly.) You'd think they'd (a)notice and (b)give him the award since he obviously deserved it. (But he probably didn't do the right politicking even though by any standard of discovery or achievement the guy should have gotten the award going away.)
Because of that I've logically concluded that I am also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Here's my proof
I've done nothing for peace
That's more than Arafat who's fought against peace
Arafat has won a peace prize
If an award was given to someone and someone else actually did more to deserve it then the other person must have won it as well
Therefore since I've done more for peace than Arafat has ever done I must also be a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
I still haven't gotten it yet though. (I've got 2 hypothesises on that. 1 is that it was lost in the mail. The other is the committee is working alphabetically and hasn't even gotten out of the 'A' yet.)
I mean the 2 commandments
Thou must never hit the return key for that is the way of readibility.
and of course
Thou must use loads and loads of parenthesis and use exactly the right amount or face damnation.
(Ok, so I absolutely hate lisp. I don't think I'm the only one.)
It was my understanding breastfeeding improves it by giving the baby some of the mother's antibodies. (Which are designed to attack specific antigens so it's not general.) On the other hand vaccines basically reprogram on a DNA level a part of the immune system so that it'll either know how to make the antibodies or otherwise fight it. Admittedly I haven't studied immunology but that's the basics I remember
Very true. Another good example of this is the "disease of the day" report in various magazine shows. I know this is an anecdote but my dad would see these things and then turn around and thing he had them. Hell look at mad cow disease. That's been diagnosed in the US a grand total of 3 times and never from actually eating US beef yet loads of people actually worry about catching it from eating too much beef. (Actually from what I remember it's never been diagnosed from people eating American, Australian, or New Zealand beef. I haven't checked on Canadian beef but I'd guess nobody has caught it from that either.)
Well one question I would wonder about is what do you do if you need a cell from another germ layer. Basically you can divide up cells in any animal (well except coral) as being derived from one of 3 layers, mesoderm, endoderm, and ectoderm. Bone marrow (which is what they used) and connective tissue are both mesoderm so it was a bit of a stretch but not totally unthinkable you could get one from the other. However it's a bigger stretch to get say bone marrow(mesoderm) to say endoderm(Liver or lungs just to name two.) Of course pleuripotent stem cells could generate any of these layers but then you'd have rejection problems. (I think you can get around that by theraputic cloning but that's almost certainly going to dredge up loads of ethical issues.)
I mean other than the downsides of a bone marrow transplant actually being one of the riskiest procedures around, often killing anything up to 20% of recipients within a couple of weeks. Maybe after all drug treatment options have failed this might be a good idea.
Yes, there is something off the top of my head that Barry could do to get my respect for his presidency. When it comes time to pick his press secretary select any of the following
Don Rickles
Jackie Mason
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
It could be case sensitive and only give you 3 tries to get it right before writing a registry entry and refusing to install at all unless you reinstall Windows. (I hear they're rolling that out next year.)
I'll just start out by admitting that I my politics don't match Obama's at all. (Fiscially conservative, socially liberatarian. Not that I liked McCain either.) Also will get off my chest that the vast majority of people voting for Obama are basically just a bunch of cult members. However I really hope Barry does a good job as president because if he doesn't the person that will pay for his mistakes won't be him, it'll be people like me.
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I just wish they'd stop asking "Do you believe in evolution?" when some stupid journalist questions a politician. It's just makes people think evolution is a belief. Really, valid ways to put in effect get the same info would be questions like "Do you think evolution is valid?" or "Do you accept that evolution is a valid scientific theory?" I mean when you ask the first question my impression is that you don't really get science. (Not a surprise since I think alot of journalists are basically scientifically illiterate.) What it actually makes me think is that the person asking it isn't so much pro evolution because they're really for science but because conservatives hate it. (Which is a stupid reason to be for a scientific theory.)
That when they hear the name of the head of NASA they think, "Isn't that the guy who created Jeopardy?" (Admittedly the way NASA is run that would actually make sense.)
I mean yes up close 3d stereoscopic visuals is nice and all but once things are even a little bit away I don't think you eyes use parallax to gauge distance anyway. (I don't know of the top of my head what the actual distance where parallax no longer works in the real world for human vision.) Admittedly I'm kind of jaded on this, they tried it in the 80's with TV when I was a kid and it didn't work that well. They tried it on the NES and SMS and it didn't work that well. (The SMS had a cool liquid crystal shutter system though.) I saw versions on the PC in the 90's which didn't work that well. So I'd figure this one would be kind of pointless.
I mean they're venomous as well. (Well at least some species.) These guys can actually pump it in (keep you minds out of the gutter) instead of it just flowing out? (I said keep your minds out of the gutter.)
The first off is the the problem is that in order to do that is that they have to be "Just-so Evil". By that I mean that they have to be evil enough to screw regular people over. However when it comes to screwing each other over all of a sudden they become honest for no real reason.(Since they could either try to take over the whole market for themselves or even collude at first and milk out some extra money by selling more than their quota when no one is looking.) Also there's the problem that if a cure existed cancer rates would probably go up since nobody is going to bother avoiding cancer if they can take a pill and be cure. (So big deal if you make less money on a single regiment to cure a patient. You'll make it up on the repeat business anyway. So go ahead, lay out in the sun all day or whatever. In the end it'll get fixed no matter how many times you get cancer.) The final problem I see with the "conspiracy" idea is that of the suppliment. (Which is weird that they could "forget" that given how common they are the US.) The idea is pretty simple, if you had a safe and effective cure for cancer that was resonably priced one way to make alot of money would be to just make it part of a vitamin pill and charge a little more for the pill. (I mean suppose there was a vitamin on the market that cost a $1 a day to take. One effect of this is that as long as you take it you can never get cancer. Anybody want to take a guess how many people in the Western world would be willing to pay for that? Hell, I would just knowing how one can die in a matter of days after the discovery of some cancers.)
Cool, actually wikipedia has more info on the differences between this and GammaKnife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberknife#Gamma_Knife
Polly want a cracker
Hell, I've got a degree in CS and really I only studied it by mistake since I confused it with Software Engineering. (Honestly alot of CS isn't even about computers, it's about information and if it can be processed, when can it be processed and how efficiently.)
Well to be fair the guy he won it with, Le Duc Tho, actually turned it down. (Sounds like he had more sense than the committee.)
Well I know that but you'd think with all those acomplishments they could get around to giving him the award while he was alive.(He did live to be 85, it's not like he did that in his 20's and died suddenly.) You'd think they'd (a)notice and (b)give him the award since he obviously deserved it. (But he probably didn't do the right politicking even though by any standard of discovery or achievement the guy should have gotten the award going away.)
Because of that I've logically concluded that I am also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Here's my proof
I've done nothing for peace
That's more than Arafat who's fought against peace
Arafat has won a peace prize
If an award was given to someone and someone else actually did more to deserve it then the other person must have won it as well
Therefore since I've done more for peace than Arafat has ever done I must also be a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
I still haven't gotten it yet though. (I've got 2 hypothesises on that. 1 is that it was lost in the mail. The other is the committee is working alphabetically and hasn't even gotten out of the 'A' yet.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hilleman
I mean how does a guy that does all that and is still having a huge effect today not win?
I mean the 2 commandments Thou must never hit the return key for that is the way of readibility. and of course Thou must use loads and loads of parenthesis and use exactly the right amount or face damnation. (Ok, so I absolutely hate lisp. I don't think I'm the only one.)
I mean why would anybody want electrodes that can engage in intercourse, let alone there?
It was my understanding breastfeeding improves it by giving the baby some of the mother's antibodies. (Which are designed to attack specific antigens so it's not general.) On the other hand vaccines basically reprogram on a DNA level a part of the immune system so that it'll either know how to make the antibodies or otherwise fight it. Admittedly I haven't studied immunology but that's the basics I remember
Instead they use R.C., Real Cheating.
Very true. Another good example of this is the "disease of the day" report in various magazine shows. I know this is an anecdote but my dad would see these things and then turn around and thing he had them. Hell look at mad cow disease. That's been diagnosed in the US a grand total of 3 times and never from actually eating US beef yet loads of people actually worry about catching it from eating too much beef. (Actually from what I remember it's never been diagnosed from people eating American, Australian, or New Zealand beef. I haven't checked on Canadian beef but I'd guess nobody has caught it from that either.)
Well one question I would wonder about is what do you do if you need a cell from another germ layer. Basically you can divide up cells in any animal (well except coral) as being derived from one of 3 layers, mesoderm, endoderm, and ectoderm. Bone marrow (which is what they used) and connective tissue are both mesoderm so it was a bit of a stretch but not totally unthinkable you could get one from the other. However it's a bigger stretch to get say bone marrow(mesoderm) to say endoderm(Liver or lungs just to name two.) Of course pleuripotent stem cells could generate any of these layers but then you'd have rejection problems. (I think you can get around that by theraputic cloning but that's almost certainly going to dredge up loads of ethical issues.)
Bone marrow is full of stem cells which is kind of the point which is why the technical term is Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow_transplant
I mean other than the downsides of a bone marrow transplant actually being one of the riskiest procedures around, often killing anything up to 20% of recipients within a couple of weeks. Maybe after all drug treatment options have failed this might be a good idea.
Since really the way things work it should be "Justice Kennedy to rule on TV censorship"
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Yes, there is something off the top of my head that Barry could do to get my respect for his presidency. When it comes time to pick his press secretary select any of the following Don Rickles Jackie Mason Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
It could be case sensitive and only give you 3 tries to get it right before writing a registry entry and refusing to install at all unless you reinstall Windows. (I hear they're rolling that out next year.)
I'll just start out by admitting that I my politics don't match Obama's at all. (Fiscially conservative, socially liberatarian. Not that I liked McCain either.) Also will get off my chest that the vast majority of people voting for Obama are basically just a bunch of cult members. However I really hope Barry does a good job as president because if he doesn't the person that will pay for his mistakes won't be him, it'll be people like me.