Rat physiology is probably better understood than human physiology for two reasons:
1. You can slice, dice, blend, and kill rats anyway necessary to study them, you can't with humans (without going to jail anyway.)
2. You can get a genetically homogenous population of rats, keep their environments, food, and all variables identical. Treat one with a drug, and you'll know any differences from the control are probably due to the drug. With humans you get a comparatively wild variation in genetic backgrounds, to say nothing of external factors.
"So this drug works 100% of the time in rats, but didn't work on patient 1257. Why?"
"Well, it turns out he has two extra chromesomes somehow, smokes like a chimney. And his house got foreclosed on during the test, so he probably had a massive increase in stress. He eats mostly cheeze-wiz, and I strongly suspect he does heroin."
So it gets very complicated to -study- humans, even if we may not have more complicated physiologies.
Analysis of your post shows that both the star wars reference and "first post" were made earlier than I had originally expected, which is to say I thought the first post would be about subluxations.
What makes you think that wasn't intentional? I read this as playing friendly on Notch's part "I'll even let you guys have the homecourt advantage." He said he assumed this was a misunderstanding. He's clearly not playing hardball here, that was obvious from issuing a videogame challenge rather than a countering lawsuit.
Not being a lawyer, I fail to see the value in staking out a word like "Scrolls" and saying "MINE! ONLY ME CAN USE WORD!!!"
The title of Notch's game doesn't contain the word "Elder." Are there other similarities I'm not aware of? How likely is it really that someone else would come along, make shovelware, slap an "Elder Scroll" title on it, and when challenged say "But they didn't sue that guy for using half the title, so they don't care!" If their lawyers are being too unrealistic and paranoid in "defending" the trademark, that would in fact qualify as being assholes.
I hate to have a fanboy reaction but, well, I already am. Please forgive me, I'll keep it civil.
Fallout 3 didn't have enough content? I spent well over a hundred hours playing that game, more time than I spent playing new vegas. And that was before the DLC. Maybe beautiful, wide open, sandbox style games just aren't for you. I'd also advise you to also stay away from minecraft, as the plot there can be said to be weak to nonexistent.
It would also be fitting if, upon losing, he sued them for emotional distress or some other completely frivolous reason equivalent to saying you can't make a game with "scrolls" in the name.
Google+ is a non-starter for me until/unless they stop locking out people who need to be anonymous.
I too want to have my cake and also eat it. But they do have an option for that. It's called "Google sending anonymous letters to people via snailmail." Still in beta though.
Have you EVER said to yourself 'Boy this game would have totally had me if it had only rendered the concrete dividers in such loving detail I can make out the scuff marks from the boot of the guy who last leaned on it'?
It certainly would make "concrete divider cleaner 2000" more realistic.
Bioshock is the reference there. Which is not exactly a ringing endorsement of libertarianism any more than it is an endorsement of gene splicing humans to give them superpowers.
you had better damn sure be ready to defend yourself when the Navy shows up in a big, heavily armed ship looking to introduce you to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Only if you think the navy is likely to waste the time and money to travel to you. Which, sorry to hurt anyone's inflated ego, they're not going to unless you try to take with you a nuke or lay claim to an oil rig.
If you're really worried about it, get citizenship from some small country, preferably a landlocked one, THEN declare your island independent. Luxembourg doesn't have a navy, for example. If you're not a US citizen on paper, the US navy probably won't come trying to enforce Luxembourg's tax laws.
And, not for nothing, the example you provided of it failing, isn't. From the wiki article, it looks like Sealand had a fire, and is suffering from financial difficulties. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no nation has forcefully pulled Sealand back into the fold, right?
Apparently the man was belligerent, apparently he had a weapon, and he threw the weapon at them. What did the officers think he was -- a circus knife-thrower? Was he planning to pin the officers to the wall with knives, maybe? He was apparently too drunk to walk straight, so maybe he was planning to do that with his hand over one eye?
That would be a lot of thinkin for a person to be doing in a split second while a knife is flying at them. And it's worth noting that there were people behind the officer in that video that might have been hit with a knife. Risk own life and others on assumption that crazed drunken bum doesn't have another knife and won't get lucky, or shoot? My first instinct would probably be to shoot too.
You make an excellent point about training though. First move should be to their tasers. Cops have a duty to not shoot first and ask questions later.
I would have shut the whole courtesy BART cell phone repeater system down and told the EFF and the ACLU to take a flying f'ing leap into the bay. There is NOTHING in the Constitution about freedom of speech that says that you have to assist demonstrators in shutting down your system.
Were any of their arguments actually based around the constitutionality of that act? Because otherwise, that has nothing to do with the protests. Something not being barred by the constitution is a terrible standard for whether something is justified or not.
Which was a pretty stupid way to protest anyway since you're just going to piss off the other commuters, people who could have been on your side.
I don't know about that. Few details have been released, but what we do know is that the guy had a knife and was acting really stupidly. If you're going to start a protest because you're certain that the cops murdered an innocent man, based on THAT evidence, you probably have a lot of free time and aren't going to work.
It's northern California anyway. Protests here aren't about making your message heard, they're about feeding your own ego. "Hey, I hear migrant farm workers are being mistreated... lets go protest at the Trader Joes!!! On the way, lets stop at starbucks for a tripple whip soy french cream decaf mochalatte for $20."
That would be a good step, but even if we do change the laws, there are still thousands of stupid patents and copyrights out there already, which will still cause billions in complete waste.
Maybe set up a public review board. If apple wants to sue Samsung over making a rectangular computing device with a button, they need to have the patent reviewed, and anyone who wants to submit arguments against it, say google, can. If the patent or copyright doesn't pass review, no lawsuit. If it does, that cannot be considered in the lawsuit (IE, it cannot be "the review board proves this is a valid patent with no prior art!").
It's a bit hard to convincingly fake taking a phone call when your phone is not ringing.
But more effective in the long term if you do it right...
Them: Blah blah blah
Me: Oh, that's my cell phone, gotta take this
Them: But I didn't hear it ring...
Me: [reaches into pocket, draws out nothing, looks into empty hand] It's the president!
Them: You don't even have a cell phone...
Me: [thumb to ear and pinkie in front of mouth] Yes Mr. President! TERRIBLY fucking boring! Ugly too!
Them: [never talks to me again]
I suppose so, though I see no problem with the 2 party system. I find huge problems with voter apathy and ignorance, but those aren't caused by the 2 party system in my opinion.
As opposed to when America was starting, and we were driving native Americans off their land and using slaves to produce our crops? Yeah, total greedy bastards, that's us today...
Our forefathers dreamed of things we take for granted today. Electricity, transportation, communication, etc. Our ideas are about making things more efficient (smaller, faster, etc) or serving our corporate masters by making them cheaper or more profitable.
Says an obvious non-biologist. Curing cancer, the common cold, HIV, spinal cord injuries, crops that grow easier... those are major goals, some corporations will profit off of them yes, but those are for us.
I don't know about that. I think there would be comments about "Coward! Why did you not use your camera to beat the evildoers off of the blue knight!?!"
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Rat physiology is probably better understood than human physiology for two reasons:
1. You can slice, dice, blend, and kill rats anyway necessary to study them, you can't with humans (without going to jail anyway.)
2. You can get a genetically homogenous population of rats, keep their environments, food, and all variables identical. Treat one with a drug, and you'll know any differences from the control are probably due to the drug. With humans you get a comparatively wild variation in genetic backgrounds, to say nothing of external factors.
"So this drug works 100% of the time in rats, but didn't work on patient 1257. Why?"
"Well, it turns out he has two extra chromesomes somehow, smokes like a chimney. And his house got foreclosed on during the test, so he probably had a massive increase in stress. He eats mostly cheeze-wiz, and I strongly suspect he does heroin."
So it gets very complicated to -study- humans, even if we may not have more complicated physiologies.
Analysis of your post shows that both the star wars reference and "first post" were made earlier than I had originally expected, which is to say I thought the first post would be about subluxations.
What makes you think that wasn't intentional? I read this as playing friendly on Notch's part "I'll even let you guys have the homecourt advantage." He said he assumed this was a misunderstanding. He's clearly not playing hardball here, that was obvious from issuing a videogame challenge rather than a countering lawsuit.
Not being a lawyer, I fail to see the value in staking out a word like "Scrolls" and saying "MINE! ONLY ME CAN USE WORD!!!"
The title of Notch's game doesn't contain the word "Elder." Are there other similarities I'm not aware of? How likely is it really that someone else would come along, make shovelware, slap an "Elder Scroll" title on it, and when challenged say "But they didn't sue that guy for using half the title, so they don't care!" If their lawyers are being too unrealistic and paranoid in "defending" the trademark, that would in fact qualify as being assholes.
I hate to have a fanboy reaction but, well, I already am. Please forgive me, I'll keep it civil.
Fallout 3 didn't have enough content? I spent well over a hundred hours playing that game, more time than I spent playing new vegas. And that was before the DLC. Maybe beautiful, wide open, sandbox style games just aren't for you. I'd also advise you to also stay away from minecraft, as the plot there can be said to be weak to nonexistent.
It would also be fitting if, upon losing, he sued them for emotional distress or some other completely frivolous reason equivalent to saying you can't make a game with "scrolls" in the name.
Google+ is a non-starter for me until/unless they stop locking out people who need to be anonymous.
I too want to have my cake and also eat it. But they do have an option for that. It's called "Google sending anonymous letters to people via snailmail." Still in beta though.
Have you EVER said to yourself 'Boy this game would have totally had me if it had only rendered the concrete dividers in such loving detail I can make out the scuff marks from the boot of the guy who last leaned on it'?
It certainly would make "concrete divider cleaner 2000" more realistic.
Worth noting that the Royal Air Force rescued people from the Sealand fire. And that was the royal air force of the UK, not sealand.
Bioshock is the reference there. Which is not exactly a ringing endorsement of libertarianism any more than it is an endorsement of gene splicing humans to give them superpowers.
you had better damn sure be ready to defend yourself when the Navy shows up in a big, heavily armed ship looking to introduce you to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Only if you think the navy is likely to waste the time and money to travel to you. Which, sorry to hurt anyone's inflated ego, they're not going to unless you try to take with you a nuke or lay claim to an oil rig.
If you're really worried about it, get citizenship from some small country, preferably a landlocked one, THEN declare your island independent. Luxembourg doesn't have a navy, for example. If you're not a US citizen on paper, the US navy probably won't come trying to enforce Luxembourg's tax laws.
And, not for nothing, the example you provided of it failing, isn't. From the wiki article, it looks like Sealand had a fire, and is suffering from financial difficulties. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no nation has forcefully pulled Sealand back into the fold, right?
Apparently the man was belligerent, apparently he had a weapon, and he threw the weapon at them. What did the officers think he was -- a circus knife-thrower? Was he planning to pin the officers to the wall with knives, maybe? He was apparently too drunk to walk straight, so maybe he was planning to do that with his hand over one eye?
That would be a lot of thinkin for a person to be doing in a split second while a knife is flying at them. And it's worth noting that there were people behind the officer in that video that might have been hit with a knife. Risk own life and others on assumption that crazed drunken bum doesn't have another knife and won't get lucky, or shoot? My first instinct would probably be to shoot too.
You make an excellent point about training though. First move should be to their tasers. Cops have a duty to not shoot first and ask questions later.
I would have shut the whole courtesy BART cell phone repeater system down and told the EFF and the ACLU to take a flying f'ing leap into the bay. There is NOTHING in the Constitution about freedom of speech that says that you have to assist demonstrators in shutting down your system.
Were any of their arguments actually based around the constitutionality of that act? Because otherwise, that has nothing to do with the protests. Something not being barred by the constitution is a terrible standard for whether something is justified or not.
Which was a pretty stupid way to protest anyway since you're just going to piss off the other commuters, people who could have been on your side.
I don't know about that. Few details have been released, but what we do know is that the guy had a knife and was acting really stupidly. If you're going to start a protest because you're certain that the cops murdered an innocent man, based on THAT evidence, you probably have a lot of free time and aren't going to work.
It's northern California anyway. Protests here aren't about making your message heard, they're about feeding your own ego. "Hey, I hear migrant farm workers are being mistreated... lets go protest at the Trader Joes!!! On the way, lets stop at starbucks for a tripple whip soy french cream decaf mochalatte for $20."
It makes more sense than their plans for nuclear-powered zeppelins for tuna fishing, or the hydroelectric-powered satellite for mining antimatter.
That would be a good step, but even if we do change the laws, there are still thousands of stupid patents and copyrights out there already, which will still cause billions in complete waste.
Maybe set up a public review board. If apple wants to sue Samsung over making a rectangular computing device with a button, they need to have the patent reviewed, and anyone who wants to submit arguments against it, say google, can. If the patent or copyright doesn't pass review, no lawsuit. If it does, that cannot be considered in the lawsuit (IE, it cannot be "the review board proves this is a valid patent with no prior art!").
It's a bit hard to convincingly fake taking a phone call when your phone is not ringing.
But more effective in the long term if you do it right...
Them: Blah blah blah
Me: Oh, that's my cell phone, gotta take this
Them: But I didn't hear it ring...
Me: [reaches into pocket, draws out nothing, looks into empty hand] It's the president!
Them: You don't even have a cell phone...
Me: [thumb to ear and pinkie in front of mouth] Yes Mr. President! TERRIBLY fucking boring! Ugly too!
Them: [never talks to me again]
Nice reference, where'd you get it? The REFERENCE store?
I suppose so, though I see no problem with the 2 party system. I find huge problems with voter apathy and ignorance, but those aren't caused by the 2 party system in my opinion.
As opposed to when America was starting, and we were driving native Americans off their land and using slaves to produce our crops? Yeah, total greedy bastards, that's us today...
Our forefathers dreamed of things we take for granted today. Electricity, transportation, communication, etc. Our ideas are about making things more efficient (smaller, faster, etc) or serving our corporate masters by making them cheaper or more profitable.
Says an obvious non-biologist. Curing cancer, the common cold, HIV, spinal cord injuries, crops that grow easier... those are major goals, some corporations will profit off of them yes, but those are for us.
Are you really trying to make the argument...
Notice how those words are almost NEVER followed up by an accurate summary of the argument being made?
Heh, the link I provided actually was the first link on that google search. So I -do- believe you!
Well, the actual darwin awards do: if you've killed yourself through stupidity, you also lose your job...
I don't know about that. I think there would be comments about "Coward! Why did you not use your camera to beat the evildoers off of the blue knight!?!"