I've also called in to ICE through their media inquiries channel. I hope to gain some more information regarding the scope of their operating here and their motivations for doing so.
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To report suspicious activity, call ICE toll-free at 1-866-DHS-2ICE.
I find it very suspicious that someone is using ICE logos and seals for something that concerns them not at all. If someone is illegally making use of their seals I think they want to know about it. We ought all to call in and report this suspicious activity.
Human poachers poach Rhinos ==> Robot drones poach poachers. There's kind of a poetic justice quality in that, and heightened by the cold threat of robotic killing machines.
Your prior art means that I can use your program or a program like it without compensating Microsoft. It is fair use of the invention. Microsoft will have claimed to have invented myriad implementations of the idea, and for their use we would be obliged to compensate the inventor, Microsoft.
2. We usually freeze protein crystals in liquid nitrogen to protect against radiation damage. Unfortunately, this also tends to decrease crystal quality a great deal, which we accept because we can get away with blasting them with synchrotron X-rays.
I think for real problem cases, performing the crystallization in space for a large number at once, could be cost effective.
Also, it's not that freezing proteins necessarily creates worse crystals. Flash freezing proteins and forcing them to remain contorted away from their global minima by ionic forces without the heat to explore their energy landscape creates worse crystal images.
The trick is to allow the proteins the barest minimum of movement. They naturally exist in a state well described by glass-liquid dynamics. I know UCSD and other universities in the area are beginning some research into interesting new phases that will allow synchrotron source studies of more mobile cyrstal structures. I may be pulling this out of my ass, but if they can create zone boundaries along one or two axes they should be able to get good images from the remaining dimension(s). Perhaps a secondary magnetic effect could be introduced to create a chaotic flow in which zone boundaries arose. I really have no clue, but it's fun to think about, isn't it?
They do use synchrotron source x-rays to image protein molecules. Aside from signal-to-noise issues which are dramatically increased on Earth you could not realize the diffraction that produces the image we interpret. A single molecule does not have a regularly repeating structure like a milieu of proteins in a crystal do. No repeating crystal lattice, no diffraction.
Mathematically this is understood as interference effects absolutely mutilating your image. Have you ever tried to effect a Fourier Transform on the data 1,0? Your spectrum is just a flat line with a unit intensity spike at zero representing the average of your data. On a crystallographic photo plate you would just see a small black dot in the center fading out radially. The dot's size will be related to your overall signal-to-noise ratio.
Well, not really, but it is remarkably free of mention of the problems which lie ahead. There are risks of inducing a pathological autoimmune response of course. I think there is a bit of naivety on the researchers part to assume that there will not be viruses out there which bypass their technique by injecting RNA (mRNA, siRNA, etc. etc.) directly into the cell where it is then taken into the nucleus free of antibodies.
Are there antibodies which recognize ssRNA?
With these drugs widely used it will favor the proliferation of nasty retroviruses. We'll have to be careful and so I think it will take quite a bit longer than two to five years to see these drugs in the market (at least here in the USA).
You're absolutely right. In a pinch America has the personnel and resources to jump start a rare earth industry. If some company would hire me and pay me a salary I could absolutely operate remote sensing equipment and develop software for locating deposits and I'm not the only one. We have people with the skills to operate this industry we just don't want to pay the 1st world premium, apparently.
The best way is to just compare them to the actual structure which is known from x-ray crystallography and NMR studies. They could do isotopic replacement studies to get ideas about which hydrogrens or nitrogens or carbons were kinetically involved in the folding process and see whether the same atoms were important in the simulation. If they're the same it could just be a coincidence, or it could be an indication that the folding itself is accurate on the computer, not just the final structure.
This is truly amazing, but we've still got a long ways to go. MOAR COMPUTERS PRZ!
No, he is not really increasing supply, because he sets his price equal to whatever is already on Amazon and in such a small volume there is literally zero market pressure to decrease prices.
The man filing the lawsuit is claiming Red Bull stole 'plans' from him and that he pitched the idea to them in 2004. He cannot patent or copyright jumping out of a plane in space, but because he pitched the idea to Red Bull and it will be a Red Bull event the economic and fiduciary factors of IP law apply. That is why the court is bothering to hear the case I suppose. Still, the court *has* to find for the defendant. If this guy wins it means someone can work on an idea and just pitch it to a company and then that company is bound to deal with that specific individual if they ever decide to go forward with the idea, even if only in essence.
Redundancy may provide for resistance to mutations (though in some cases more copies of critical portions of the genome could reduce resistance) but greater numbers of base pairs do not.
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These plants are susceptible to extreme conditions, pollution, toxins, etc. because of their extraordinarily large genomes. The hypothesis is that the size of the genome necessitates the cell spend an inordinate amount of energy maintaining and duplicating the genome. The mutation rate for the plant in a polluted area is largely maintained by the error rate of it's error-correction proteins. The cell must spend more energy creating these proteins to scan the larger genome, as well as proteins for packing the genome efficiently and to allow for rapid unpacking. With a larger genome there are a greater absolute number of errors and so more errors overall. The cell must spend more energy to correct this greater volume of errors. Overall the effect is to make the cell ill-suited to facing extreme conditions, and slow to grow.
I may understand why you dismiss my God, but I will contend that your assumption, that the criteria which eliminate all the other Gods extends on to my God, is a faulty assumption. I understand why you would make your conclusion, and it is a false conclusion.
OK, aside from how much I dislike this putrid shell of a human being his comments are entirely moronic. Rep. Wolf says "China is taking an increasingly aggressive posture globally, and their interests rarely intersect with ours." Umm.. OK Wolf, except for matters concerning the common interests of humanity. It pays to get along with China as opposed to nuking the Earth, and unless you seriously consider the USA to eventually be in position to conquer and assimilate China (HA!), it will pay to get along with China in space.
It seems like the obvious implication is that they wielded their swords left-handed. Maybe because it was easier for them to maintain their shield formation if they used their 'strong' arm as shield-arm.
Jesus christ, this is retarded. Just reject 729,973 of the backlogged patents based on prior art. It's just that simple. They could save a HUGE amount of time by allowing for paperwork (regarding the reasons for rejection) to be issued after the decision is made. Yes, now you've just got a different kind of backlog, but at least it's not keeping the USPTO from issuing decisions on patents.
This isn't something that is being invented, or a work being created. Since the boilerplate is not a copyrightable work there's no issue with plagiarism.
There are plenty of things operating in hot, noisy environments that could use that power. There's a ton of power in those environments, enough to replace the external power source (FTA, more or less). Though, strictly speaking, the most successful of these will probably not be power sources, exactly. They will be engines for removing entropy from a system (e.g. hot air -> geometric mesh -> sound -> electricity).
At least until someone releases "Bust A Charge" that has users perform gestures while holding the phone resembling dance steps, and thus recharging the phone.
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I've also called in to ICE through their media inquiries channel. I hope to gain some more information regarding the scope of their operating here and their motivations for doing so.
Report Suspicious Activity To report suspicious activity, call ICE toll-free at 1-866-DHS-2ICE. I find it very suspicious that someone is using ICE logos and seals for something that concerns them not at all. If someone is illegally making use of their seals I think they want to know about it. We ought all to call in and report this suspicious activity.
Human poachers poach Rhinos ==> Robot drones poach poachers. There's kind of a poetic justice quality in that, and heightened by the cold threat of robotic killing machines.
So you believe the onus for tax collection should lie on the buyer and not the seller then?
These workers in turn pay income taxes and sales taxes (when they purchase goods and services) which pay for the roads and infrastructure.
Well, if they buy stuff from Amazon they don't pay sales taxes, which is exactly the point, son.
Your prior art means that I can use your program or a program like it without compensating Microsoft. It is fair use of the invention. Microsoft will have claimed to have invented myriad implementations of the idea, and for their use we would be obliged to compensate the inventor, Microsoft.
2. We usually freeze protein crystals in liquid nitrogen to protect against radiation damage. Unfortunately, this also tends to decrease crystal quality a great deal, which we accept because we can get away with blasting them with synchrotron X-rays.
I think for real problem cases, performing the crystallization in space for a large number at once, could be cost effective.
Also, it's not that freezing proteins necessarily creates worse crystals. Flash freezing proteins and forcing them to remain contorted away from their global minima by ionic forces without the heat to explore their energy landscape creates worse crystal images.
The trick is to allow the proteins the barest minimum of movement. They naturally exist in a state well described by glass-liquid dynamics. I know UCSD and other universities in the area are beginning some research into interesting new phases that will allow synchrotron source studies of more mobile cyrstal structures. I may be pulling this out of my ass, but if they can create zone boundaries along one or two axes they should be able to get good images from the remaining dimension(s). Perhaps a secondary magnetic effect could be introduced to create a chaotic flow in which zone boundaries arose. I really have no clue, but it's fun to think about, isn't it?
They do use synchrotron source x-rays to image protein molecules. Aside from signal-to-noise issues which are dramatically increased on Earth you could not realize the diffraction that produces the image we interpret. A single molecule does not have a regularly repeating structure like a milieu of proteins in a crystal do. No repeating crystal lattice, no diffraction. Mathematically this is understood as interference effects absolutely mutilating your image. Have you ever tried to effect a Fourier Transform on the data 1,0? Your spectrum is just a flat line with a unit intensity spike at zero representing the average of your data. On a crystallographic photo plate you would just see a small black dot in the center fading out radially. The dot's size will be related to your overall signal-to-noise ratio.
Well, not really, but it is remarkably free of mention of the problems which lie ahead. There are risks of inducing a pathological autoimmune response of course. I think there is a bit of naivety on the researchers part to assume that there will not be viruses out there which bypass their technique by injecting RNA (mRNA, siRNA, etc. etc.) directly into the cell where it is then taken into the nucleus free of antibodies. Are there antibodies which recognize ssRNA? With these drugs widely used it will favor the proliferation of nasty retroviruses. We'll have to be careful and so I think it will take quite a bit longer than two to five years to see these drugs in the market (at least here in the USA).
You're absolutely right. In a pinch America has the personnel and resources to jump start a rare earth industry. If some company would hire me and pay me a salary I could absolutely operate remote sensing equipment and develop software for locating deposits and I'm not the only one. We have people with the skills to operate this industry we just don't want to pay the 1st world premium, apparently.
The best way is to just compare them to the actual structure which is known from x-ray crystallography and NMR studies. They could do isotopic replacement studies to get ideas about which hydrogrens or nitrogens or carbons were kinetically involved in the folding process and see whether the same atoms were important in the simulation. If they're the same it could just be a coincidence, or it could be an indication that the folding itself is accurate on the computer, not just the final structure. This is truly amazing, but we've still got a long ways to go. MOAR COMPUTERS PRZ!
No, he is not really increasing supply, because he sets his price equal to whatever is already on Amazon and in such a small volume there is literally zero market pressure to decrease prices.
The man filing the lawsuit is claiming Red Bull stole 'plans' from him and that he pitched the idea to them in 2004. He cannot patent or copyright jumping out of a plane in space, but because he pitched the idea to Red Bull and it will be a Red Bull event the economic and fiduciary factors of IP law apply. That is why the court is bothering to hear the case I suppose. Still, the court *has* to find for the defendant. If this guy wins it means someone can work on an idea and just pitch it to a company and then that company is bound to deal with that specific individual if they ever decide to go forward with the idea, even if only in essence.
Redundancy may provide for resistance to mutations (though in some cases more copies of critical portions of the genome could reduce resistance) but greater numbers of base pairs do not.
Hi id These plants are susceptible to extreme conditions, pollution, toxins, etc. because of their extraordinarily large genomes. The hypothesis is that the size of the genome necessitates the cell spend an inordinate amount of energy maintaining and duplicating the genome. The mutation rate for the plant in a polluted area is largely maintained by the error rate of it's error-correction proteins. The cell must spend more energy creating these proteins to scan the larger genome, as well as proteins for packing the genome efficiently and to allow for rapid unpacking. With a larger genome there are a greater absolute number of errors and so more errors overall. The cell must spend more energy to correct this greater volume of errors. Overall the effect is to make the cell ill-suited to facing extreme conditions, and slow to grow.
I may understand why you dismiss my God, but I will contend that your assumption, that the criteria which eliminate all the other Gods extends on to my God, is a faulty assumption. I understand why you would make your conclusion, and it is a false conclusion.
OK, aside from how much I dislike this putrid shell of a human being his comments are entirely moronic. Rep. Wolf says "China is taking an increasingly aggressive posture globally, and their interests rarely intersect with ours." Umm.. OK Wolf, except for matters concerning the common interests of humanity. It pays to get along with China as opposed to nuking the Earth, and unless you seriously consider the USA to eventually be in position to conquer and assimilate China (HA!), it will pay to get along with China in space.
It seems like the obvious implication is that they wielded their swords left-handed. Maybe because it was easier for them to maintain their shield formation if they used their 'strong' arm as shield-arm.
What if I'm trying to use it at the ball game? What about in the food court? In other words, what are the limitations introduced by background noise?
Jesus christ, this is retarded. Just reject 729,973 of the backlogged patents based on prior art. It's just that simple. They could save a HUGE amount of time by allowing for paperwork (regarding the reasons for rejection) to be issued after the decision is made. Yes, now you've just got a different kind of backlog, but at least it's not keeping the USPTO from issuing decisions on patents.
This isn't something that is being invented, or a work being created. Since the boilerplate is not a copyrightable work there's no issue with plagiarism.
There are plenty of things operating in hot, noisy environments that could use that power. There's a ton of power in those environments, enough to replace the external power source (FTA, more or less). Though, strictly speaking, the most successful of these will probably not be power sources, exactly. They will be engines for removing entropy from a system (e.g. hot air -> geometric mesh -> sound -> electricity).
At least until someone releases "Bust A Charge" that has users perform gestures while holding the phone resembling dance steps, and thus recharging the phone.
What if Sci-Fi and comics really were the main mind killer though, man??
I think you'll find the people hacking facebook are very innovative and creative. TV is the main mind killer.
Actually, fear is the main mind killer. Such as fear of TV killing your mind....