That's not what happened at all. They didn't force her to take down her website, they just told her she couldn't bring her camera to school. Still a stupid move, but not the same as what you are alleging.
I didn't say anything about democracy, just that creationists are not the sensible fraction. But since you mention it, the USA isn't a direct democracy; it doesn't necessarily have to enact the majority opinion on everything.
That doesn't tell you much about the demographics involved.
Those 1,024 adults could have been somewhat self-selected. What kind of person answers the telephone without first confirming who the call is from, then proceeds to answer a bunch of inane questions? A person stupid enough to believe in creationism, that's who.
It's worth pointing out that it's not just human genomes which will be cheap. I'm excited about the applications this has in biology at large. If sequencing costs continue dropping at anything like their current rate of decrease, whole genome sequencing will soon be opened up to all sorts of interested parties. That has huge implications for taxonomy and phylogenetics, conservation, crop breeding and plant science as a whole.
If genome sequencing costs drop, that means other types of sequencing costs drop too. For example RNA-Seq, which lets us see which genes are currently active at a given point in time, in a sample from an organism. Things which are currently conceptually possible but prohibitively expensive, such as comparing the active genes across hundreds or thousands or species in a particular state, or across a species in hundreds of different environmental conditions, will become possible. Our understanding of life processes will deepen by an order of magnitude, with inevitable benefits in biotech, medicine and agriculture.
Well, since Bacillus thuringiensis is an acceptable organic pesticide, used by spraying the bacteria directly onto the leaf surfaces, you would expect some organic foods to still have traces.
I also use Witopia from the UK. It has about 30 different servers you can connect to in different cities around the world - I use it all day to listen to Pandora and occasionally watch Hulu. Also good for watching the BBC from abroad and watching Japanese channels from the UK.
Excellent service all-round - high speeds and a choice of four VPN protocols.
It's a company who provide lots of cool shit for the web as part of their business model. People like them because they let us exchange what used to be a worthless commodity (our personal data) for real services. They are much more than an ad network, to the point where it's stupid to call them that. They changed the face of the internet, continue to provide great services, and we don't have to give them any money. We are geeks, we think about it and *then* love them.
The 37k claimed in that post includes general public. So, that post *is* inaccurate flamebait. The petition actually claims to have around 9k PhD signatories, but the list has been debunked a few times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition#Criticism_of_the_Oregon_Petition).
If I could mod this up, I would. The indictment claims that the Mega sites (which they call the "Mega Conspiracy") is a group of sites designed to profit from the sharing of content. They they go on to say that each named "conspirator" has knowingly used the network for copyright infringement, and after being told about specific infringing files, failed to remove them. The case they are trying to establish is that the MU staff allowed infringement to continue because it profited them.
Everyone should read the indictment summary before knee-jerking in defence of the site, it does actually look quite bad for them.
If you follow the link in the pop-up, the BBC website explains that the changes will be phased in gradually over the Summer.
"The government's view is that there should be a phased approach to the implementation of these changes. Over the summer, we will be working on developing the best methods for obtaining your consent.
In the meantime, you can control cookies by setting your device to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. We will ensure that we continue to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use, so that you can make informed decisions."
On top of that, the law only covers tracking cookies, but the BBC is going to include all cookies in it's policy. No story here.
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That's not what happened at all. They didn't force her to take down her website, they just told her she couldn't bring her camera to school. Still a stupid move, but not the same as what you are alleging.
I didn't say anything about democracy, just that creationists are not the sensible fraction. But since you mention it, the USA isn't a direct democracy; it doesn't necessarily have to enact the majority opinion on everything.
Yes, because the 21% are the sensible ones.
That doesn't tell you much about the demographics involved.
Those 1,024 adults could have been somewhat self-selected. What kind of person answers the telephone without first confirming who the call is from, then proceeds to answer a bunch of inane questions? A person stupid enough to believe in creationism, that's who.
You're confusing evolution with natural selection. Natural selection is just one mechanism by which evolution can occur.
It's worth pointing out that it's not just human genomes which will be cheap. I'm excited about the applications this has in biology at large. If sequencing costs continue dropping at anything like their current rate of decrease, whole genome sequencing will soon be opened up to all sorts of interested parties. That has huge implications for taxonomy and phylogenetics, conservation, crop breeding and plant science as a whole.
If genome sequencing costs drop, that means other types of sequencing costs drop too. For example RNA-Seq, which lets us see which genes are currently active at a given point in time, in a sample from an organism. Things which are currently conceptually possible but prohibitively expensive, such as comparing the active genes across hundreds or thousands or species in a particular state, or across a species in hundreds of different environmental conditions, will become possible. Our understanding of life processes will deepen by an order of magnitude, with inevitable benefits in biotech, medicine and agriculture.
Well, since Bacillus thuringiensis is an acceptable organic pesticide, used by spraying the bacteria directly onto the leaf surfaces, you would expect some organic foods to still have traces.
I also use Witopia from the UK. It has about 30 different servers you can connect to in different cities around the world - I use it all day to listen to Pandora and occasionally watch Hulu. Also good for watching the BBC from abroad and watching Japanese channels from the UK.
Excellent service all-round - high speeds and a choice of four VPN protocols.
...and that we only have tens, instead of thousands of gunshot wounds in the UK every year.
It's a company who provide lots of cool shit for the web as part of their business model. People like them because they let us exchange what used to be a worthless commodity (our personal data) for real services. They are much more than an ad network, to the point where it's stupid to call them that. They changed the face of the internet, continue to provide great services, and we don't have to give them any money. We are geeks, we think about it and *then* love them.
The lesson to take from this is: don't store valuable information on your thermostat.
Don't drag the neanderthals down, they were nothing to do with this. They probably died out for being more peaceful than humans.
The 37k claimed in that post includes general public. So, that post *is* inaccurate flamebait. The petition actually claims to have around 9k PhD signatories, but the list has been debunked a few times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition#Criticism_of_the_Oregon_Petition).
If I could mod this up, I would. The indictment claims that the Mega sites (which they call the "Mega Conspiracy") is a group of sites designed to profit from the sharing of content. They they go on to say that each named "conspirator" has knowingly used the network for copyright infringement, and after being told about specific infringing files, failed to remove them. The case they are trying to establish is that the MU staff allowed infringement to continue because it profited them.
Everyone should read the indictment summary before knee-jerking in defence of the site, it does actually look quite bad for them.
This is the only comment on /. that's ever made me burst into laughter.
I went looking for them...
These guys think indefinite copyright would maximise social welfare:
1. Optimal Copyright Length for Media Content: A Gundam Approach - http://www.jlea.jp/06kougai03.pdf
2. Optimal copyright length and ex post investment: a Mickey Mouse approach - http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1551/
3. The Economic Structure of Intellectual Copyright Law (Landes & Powney 2003): http://books.google.com/books/about/The_economic_structure_of_intellectual_p.html?id=X-KkvbT6F4UC
The only thing I could find (in Google Scholar) recommending short-lived copyright was this CED report, The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property (see conclusion #5) - http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/digital_economy/report_dcc.pdf
I's like to see links to those '7 year' studies too.
If you follow the link in the pop-up, the BBC website explains that the changes will be phased in gradually over the Summer.
"The government's view is that there should be a phased approach to the implementation of these changes. Over the summer, we will be working on developing the best methods for obtaining your consent.
In the meantime, you can control cookies by setting your device to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. We will ensure that we continue to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use, so that you can make informed decisions."
On top of that, the law only covers tracking cookies, but the BBC is going to include all cookies in it's policy. No story here.