An alternative name registry service would do wonders to cripple the whole "internet censorship" bandwagon that has been going on recently. Blacklists? Rendered at the very least 2X as difficult to implement on a national scale, simply because the clients you are attempting to prevent from accessing content can reach that content by using the alternate name resolution service.
For five minutes or less before the proponents of the blacklist say "This goes for those guys too."
"The US and allies meddle a whole lot more in the Arab world, not less
and is that a good thing??
That was neither said nor implied.
terrorism...is they way of "Meddling A whole More in the affairs" of the so called civilized west
That's not their stated goal.
What defines the West (apart from the fact that the west is a collection of human beings)? To some it is freedom among other things, so if there is less freedom, "They didn't come anywhere close to destroying the west" is a false statement.
Their stated goals are fairly straightforward. When they say the land will run red with our blood, they're not talking about the bill of rights being changed, they're talking about us all being violently killed.
You're implying it's not war mongering because it's against a country you don't like? I'd say warmongering is warmongering whether you like or don't like the government it's against. Either way, it's mostly going to be people dying who had little to do with the reasons you like or dislike the government.
"Democrats" can only be said to "hate wikileaks" if you think all democrats work in the administration or think that all democrats have more of an interest in Obama's PR than real issues. Both would be equally stupid ideas.
I don't think it's "pure fantasy." I mean, it's been demonstrated in mice, we have every reason to think it will work in humans. Activating dormant genes which are already in your genome doesn't seem like such an insurmountable issue.
I think you're right that health issues will come up, but there are bigger concerns than noses and teeth, specifically your brain. This study looks at that and finds that telomerase activity helps stop or reverse the decline, but I would imagine activating telomere activity in the brain would be much more problematic than activating it in just the skin
I don't know if the Terrorists have "won", but we have surely lost
The US and allies meddle a whole lot more in the Arab world, not less. We have not fallen to our knees and converted to their particular idiotic and hypocritical cult within Islam. They didn't come anywhere close to destroying the west. I firmly believe they are not resting in an afterlife enjoying 40 virgins.
They utterly and totally failed at their stated goals.
They did -spark- many other problems for us, all minor compared to what they were aiming for. Sparked, not caused. We gave up our rights and wasted our taxes on our own, driven mainly by our fear, and partly by elected officials and the media. They didn't do that, we did. We may have chosen to project our fears onto China had they not applied for the job, and I think we can all agree that if we duped ourselves into attacking China, we'd be worse off than we are today.
Moreover, infringing on our civil liberties and increasing the deficit were far from their goals. They didn't just want to be a thorn in our side, they wanted us all dead or worshiping their idea of Islam. No one blows themselves up to waste taxpayer money or cause people to lose privacy when traveling. They failed completely.
iFans would shit a golden brick if Microsoft banned iTunes from Windows 7, yet they apparently have no problem rationalizing the wielding of the mighty App Store banhammer against information about (not even an ad for) someone elses platform.
telling. very telling. Looks like I have one less reason to buy an iWhatever any time soon.
Sounds like you're saying "iphone users are dumb and gullible, therefore I will not buy an iphone." There are plenty of reasons not to get an iProduct, but how easily iFans rationalize things is a new one to me.
I've heard several people in the industry say that android is going to take over, so the forward-thinkers at apple might be fretting a bit. I have no idea what makes them so sure android is going to win in the long term, so I don't know how realistic that is. I'd also guess the massive amounts of money they're rolling in right now would have a calming effect, and the stated reason for rejection seems like it didn't come from someone who was very forward thinking, but maybe someone at apple is actually worried.
A treatment that does not require diet and exercise modifications is sorely needed.
Absolutely. Because quality of life is measured by how much you can eat in front of your computer without gaining weight.
There are also medical situations in which diet and exercise are insufficient. Those premature aging diseases that make kids look 80 are not going to be solved by diet and exercise. Some signs of aging can be mitigated by staying healthy, but no amount of multivitamins or jogging is going to make my hair stay on my head or keep you from getting crows feet.
Also, any additional working knowledge of these processes and manipulating them are probably not going to be trivial. Say some researcher finds a way to induce telomerase activity in skin, making younger looking skin, and along the way, stumbles upon a way of effectively preventing the cancer you'd expect that might cause. That breakthrough might turn out to dramatically decrease your chances of getting skin cancer. Maybe Oil of Olay finds a way to do that super cheap. Overnight, everyone looks ten years younger, has dramatically reduced risk of skin cancer, the trade deficit is reversed
So that's not really as trivial as you make it out to be.
Where are the big releases on Russia, Venezuela, and other corrupt governments
From the wiki page on wikileaks, stories that are of a non-US flavor are in bold.
Notable leaks: Apparent Somali assassination order Daniel arap Moi family corruption Bank Julius Baer lawsuit Guantánamo Bay procedures Scientology Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account contents BNP membership list Climatic Research Unit emails Internet censorship lists Bilderberg Group meeting reports 2008 Peru oil scandal Nuclear accident in Iran Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report Kaupthing Bank Joint Services Protocol 440 9/11 pager messages U.S. Intelligence report on WikiLeaks Baghdad airstrike video Arrest of Bradley Manning Afghan War Diary Love Parade documents Iraq War Logs
Anyway, what's wimpy about standing up to the remaining superpower and saying "You don't get to keep everything secret."? Assange and wikileaks seemed to be getting along pretty well until they took on the US. They're not stupid, they had to know some of that was coming, if the US government/military didn't -directly- send them warnings.
The only way to do security of this type effectively IS the way other countries (like Israel) do it - and that is with profiling
Citation needed. For one thing, the security risks are actually pretty low. How many acts of terrorism on US airplanes have been successful since 9/11? Second, it seems to me that islamic fundamentalists from the middle east, who I'm assuming you're saying we should profile, are not the only security concern. Oklahoma City was a group of crazy white dudes. The underwear bomber was black.
So we should profile everyone who isn't Asian, Native American, or Latino? Seems like we're almost doing that now.
That won't imprint it for life either. You can get DNA into the embryo, no problem, but without convincing the cell it's something the cell needs to replicate, that DNA won't get copied with the cell's normal DNA and will be dilluted out in a few divisions.
Getting DNA inserted into the genome is possible in mice and numerous other organisms, though I don't think anyone has done it in humans. Getting it inserted into the genome in -every- cell of a human body would be much more difficult. Getting it to reliably get implanted into every embryo, and making sure it wasn't in the middle of an important gene? I wouldn't worry about that.
For those people who are within sight of the beach when they are checking twitter, yes, a glance would have been an indication.
For anyone who is more than seconds away from verifying themselves, which I would assume is most people who would be affected, no, that's idiotic. The minutes it takes you to observe the water level could be the minutes you'd need to get yourself and your family out of the danger zone. -Toward- the water is not where you want to go in the event that the tsunami was about to hit.
Which is the opposite of what the public does once they get a term defined for them, so how about hackers innovate themselves a new term. Net ninjas? Everybody likes ninjas these days, not much chance of someone hearing "net ninja" and thinking "Jerks like the one who raised a false tsunami alarm."
That's at least partially an artificial problem with the games, not the PCs. For one thing, it seems like half the developers half-ass the PC version intentionally, since they have less control than on consoles. For another, the PC market is smaller and less of a concern.
In fact, they joked about it because it had ceased to be meaningful in any way.
I was never quite clear what the I was supposed to do with the threat level information anyway.
"Threat level orange? Well then I'm going to report the guy with a stick of dynamite in his back pocket. Were it threat level green, I'd just assume he was just being prepared for some emergency demolition."
People will make fun of the new system as well. That's not because of the system, it's because the same silly cowards will be running it.
To prove your point "One alternative under consideration is to change to only two threat levels: elevated and imminent."
"Elevated?" From what? From what we'd like it to be? From what we assumed it was before 9/11? From
I'm guessing this is how the new threat level indicator was conceived: A TSA head was wondering how he could convince people to still be afraid and get their congressmen to keep increasing the TSA budget as he wandered into a McDonalds. He asked for a diet coke, small. The cashier said "We only have large, extra large, and jumbo." He said "The smallest size is large? You're just trying to convince people they're getting more when actually.... ohhhhhhhh...."
I suspect your tastes have just matured. There might be other, more complex games you enjoy more. In college I thought JRPGs were great and had little time for anything else. These days, I can't spend 90 hours crawling through dungeons, and much to my surprise find that I just get frustrated when I try to play JRPGs. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate games anymore, it just meant that I have to say "okay, I'm only going to play the best ranked games on metacritic."
Everytime you put a barcode on a living thing, you stir up that pot of crazy.
The summary really should have pointed out that THE TAGS DON'T STAY ON. Hopefully we can nip this in the bud.
And try not to forget that just because science is great, it doesn't mean that the Christian retards have any less power.
What power in this context? The power to foam at the mouth about this fairly boring bit of research from Spain? The ability to pass laws stipulating that human embryos should not be marked with barcodes?
Don't get me wrong, any power is more power than those nuts -should- have, and this could get them new recruits which would also be bad, but this is not a serious issue otherwise.
A tinfoil hat won't save you from the embryo bar code! The fact that you're not an embryo and have no zona pellucida will. Read the very short article: these are tagged onto the outside of the embryo. The embryo hatches out of it prior to attaching to the uterine wall, the tag is lost at that point. This is not like imprinting organisms from conception to adulthood, despite the tone of the summary.
Monsanto doesn't own the corn genome. That being said, they were trying to steal some of the credit for sequencing the genome, despite doing nothing to help. I can't find a source on that right now though, of the lead scientist opening up a paper an being surprised it read "Monsanto sequences corn genome."
Anyway, no, the corn genome is not currently owned by monsanto, though if we're not careful I'm positive their lobbyists will find a way to steal it.
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This obscure reference just went over 99% of Americans' government-educated heads.
And 170% of the home-educated heads.
An alternative name registry service would do wonders to cripple the whole "internet censorship" bandwagon that has been going on recently. Blacklists? Rendered at the very least 2X as difficult to implement on a national scale, simply because the clients you are attempting to prevent from accessing content can reach that content by using the alternate name resolution service.
For five minutes or less before the proponents of the blacklist say "This goes for those guys too."
I'd say woosh, except that the joke AC is retelling is so stupid that I think the joke is actually on AC.
"The US and allies meddle a whole lot more in the Arab world, not less
and is that a good thing??
That was neither said nor implied.
terrorism ...is they way of "Meddling A whole More in the affairs" of the so called civilized west
That's not their stated goal.
What defines the West (apart from the fact that the west is a collection of human beings)? To some it is freedom among other things, so if there is less freedom, "They didn't come anywhere close to destroying the west" is a false statement.
Their stated goals are fairly straightforward. When they say the land will run red with our blood, they're not talking about the bill of rights being changed, they're talking about us all being violently killed.
You're implying it's not war mongering because it's against a country you don't like? I'd say warmongering is warmongering whether you like or don't like the government it's against. Either way, it's mostly going to be people dying who had little to do with the reasons you like or dislike the government.
"Democrats" can only be said to "hate wikileaks" if you think all democrats work in the administration or think that all democrats have more of an interest in Obama's PR than real issues. Both would be equally stupid ideas.
I don't think it's "pure fantasy." I mean, it's been demonstrated in mice, we have every reason to think it will work in humans. Activating dormant genes which are already in your genome doesn't seem like such an insurmountable issue.
I think you're right that health issues will come up, but there are bigger concerns than noses and teeth, specifically your brain. This study looks at that and finds that telomerase activity helps stop or reverse the decline, but I would imagine activating telomere activity in the brain would be much more problematic than activating it in just the skin
I don't know if the Terrorists have "won", but we have surely lost
The US and allies meddle a whole lot more in the Arab world, not less. We have not fallen to our knees and converted to their particular idiotic and hypocritical cult within Islam. They didn't come anywhere close to destroying the west. I firmly believe they are not resting in an afterlife enjoying 40 virgins.
They utterly and totally failed at their stated goals.
They did -spark- many other problems for us, all minor compared to what they were aiming for. Sparked, not caused. We gave up our rights and wasted our taxes on our own, driven mainly by our fear, and partly by elected officials and the media. They didn't do that, we did. We may have chosen to project our fears onto China had they not applied for the job, and I think we can all agree that if we duped ourselves into attacking China, we'd be worse off than we are today.
Moreover, infringing on our civil liberties and increasing the deficit were far from their goals. They didn't just want to be a thorn in our side, they wanted us all dead or worshiping their idea of Islam. No one blows themselves up to waste taxpayer money or cause people to lose privacy when traveling. They failed completely.
iFans would shit a golden brick if Microsoft banned iTunes from Windows 7, yet they apparently have no problem rationalizing the wielding of the mighty App Store banhammer against information about (not even an ad for) someone elses platform.
telling. very telling. Looks like I have one less reason to buy an iWhatever any time soon.
Sounds like you're saying "iphone users are dumb and gullible, therefore I will not buy an iphone." There are plenty of reasons not to get an iProduct, but how easily iFans rationalize things is a new one to me.
I've heard several people in the industry say that android is going to take over, so the forward-thinkers at apple might be fretting a bit. I have no idea what makes them so sure android is going to win in the long term, so I don't know how realistic that is. I'd also guess the massive amounts of money they're rolling in right now would have a calming effect, and the stated reason for rejection seems like it didn't come from someone who was very forward thinking, but maybe someone at apple is actually worried.
A treatment that does not require diet and exercise modifications is sorely needed.
Absolutely. Because quality of life is measured by how much you can eat in front of your computer without gaining weight.
There are also medical situations in which diet and exercise are insufficient. Those premature aging diseases that make kids look 80 are not going to be solved by diet and exercise. Some signs of aging can be mitigated by staying healthy, but no amount of multivitamins or jogging is going to make my hair stay on my head or keep you from getting crows feet.
Also, any additional working knowledge of these processes and manipulating them are probably not going to be trivial. Say some researcher finds a way to induce telomerase activity in skin, making younger looking skin, and along the way, stumbles upon a way of effectively preventing the cancer you'd expect that might cause. That breakthrough might turn out to dramatically decrease your chances of getting skin cancer. Maybe Oil of Olay finds a way to do that super cheap. Overnight, everyone looks ten years younger, has dramatically reduced risk of skin cancer, the trade deficit is reversed
So that's not really as trivial as you make it out to be.
First post (or will be when I inject telomerase)
Where are the big releases on Russia, Venezuela, and other corrupt governments
From the wiki page on wikileaks, stories that are of a non-US flavor are in bold.
Notable leaks:
Apparent Somali assassination order
Daniel arap Moi family corruption
Bank Julius Baer lawsuit
Guantánamo Bay procedures
Scientology
Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account contents
BNP membership list
Climatic Research Unit emails
Internet censorship lists
Bilderberg Group meeting reports
2008 Peru oil scandal
Nuclear accident in Iran
Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report
Kaupthing Bank
Joint Services Protocol 440
9/11 pager messages
U.S. Intelligence report on WikiLeaks
Baghdad airstrike video
Arrest of Bradley Manning
Afghan War Diary
Love Parade documents
Iraq War Logs
Anyway, what's wimpy about standing up to the remaining superpower and saying "You don't get to keep everything secret."? Assange and wikileaks seemed to be getting along pretty well until they took on the US. They're not stupid, they had to know some of that was coming, if the US government/military didn't -directly- send them warnings.
Now that you mention it, I've heard that for a while, it was routine for flights from Miami to Mexico got hijacked by cubans, so latinos are out too.
There would be something very right about racially profiling everyone except Native Americans.
The only way to do security of this type effectively IS the way other countries (like Israel) do it - and that is with profiling
Citation needed. For one thing, the security risks are actually pretty low. How many acts of terrorism on US airplanes have been successful since 9/11? Second, it seems to me that islamic fundamentalists from the middle east, who I'm assuming you're saying we should profile, are not the only security concern. Oklahoma City was a group of crazy white dudes. The underwear bomber was black.
So we should profile everyone who isn't Asian, Native American, or Latino? Seems like we're almost doing that now.
That won't imprint it for life either. You can get DNA into the embryo, no problem, but without convincing the cell it's something the cell needs to replicate, that DNA won't get copied with the cell's normal DNA and will be dilluted out in a few divisions.
Getting DNA inserted into the genome is possible in mice and numerous other organisms, though I don't think anyone has done it in humans. Getting it inserted into the genome in -every- cell of a human body would be much more difficult. Getting it to reliably get implanted into every embryo, and making sure it wasn't in the middle of an important gene? I wouldn't worry about that.
For those people who are within sight of the beach when they are checking twitter, yes, a glance would have been an indication.
For anyone who is more than seconds away from verifying themselves, which I would assume is most people who would be affected, no, that's idiotic. The minutes it takes you to observe the water level could be the minutes you'd need to get yourself and your family out of the danger zone. -Toward- the water is not where you want to go in the event that the tsunami was about to hit.
Hackers learn an innovate
Which is the opposite of what the public does once they get a term defined for them, so how about hackers innovate themselves a new term. Net ninjas? Everybody likes ninjas these days, not much chance of someone hearing "net ninja" and thinking "Jerks like the one who raised a false tsunami alarm."
That's at least partially an artificial problem with the games, not the PCs. For one thing, it seems like half the developers half-ass the PC version intentionally, since they have less control than on consoles. For another, the PC market is smaller and less of a concern.
In fact, they joked about it because it had ceased to be meaningful in any way.
I was never quite clear what the I was supposed to do with the threat level information anyway.
"Threat level orange? Well then I'm going to report the guy with a stick of dynamite in his back pocket. Were it threat level green, I'd just assume he was just being prepared for some emergency demolition."
People will make fun of the new system as well. That's not because of the system, it's because the same silly cowards will be running it.
To prove your point "One alternative under consideration is to change to only two threat levels: elevated and imminent."
"Elevated?" From what? From what we'd like it to be? From what we assumed it was before 9/11? From
I'm guessing this is how the new threat level indicator was conceived: A TSA head was wondering how he could convince people to still be afraid and get their congressmen to keep increasing the TSA budget as he wandered into a McDonalds. He asked for a diet coke, small. The cashier said "We only have large, extra large, and jumbo." He said "The smallest size is large? You're just trying to convince people they're getting more when actually.... ohhhhhhhh...."
I suspect your tastes have just matured. There might be other, more complex games you enjoy more. In college I thought JRPGs were great and had little time for anything else. These days, I can't spend 90 hours crawling through dungeons, and much to my surprise find that I just get frustrated when I try to play JRPGs. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate games anymore, it just meant that I have to say "okay, I'm only going to play the best ranked games on metacritic."
Everytime you put a barcode on a living thing, you stir up that pot of crazy.
The summary really should have pointed out that THE TAGS DON'T STAY ON. Hopefully we can nip this in the bud.
And try not to forget that just because science is great, it doesn't mean that the Christian retards have any less power.
What power in this context? The power to foam at the mouth about this fairly boring bit of research from Spain? The ability to pass laws stipulating that human embryos should not be marked with barcodes?
Don't get me wrong, any power is more power than those nuts -should- have, and this could get them new recruits which would also be bad, but this is not a serious issue otherwise.
A tinfoil hat won't save you from the embryo bar code! The fact that you're not an embryo and have no zona pellucida will. Read the very short article: these are tagged onto the outside of the embryo. The embryo hatches out of it prior to attaching to the uterine wall, the tag is lost at that point. This is not like imprinting organisms from conception to adulthood, despite the tone of the summary.
Monsanto doesn't own the corn genome. That being said, they were trying to steal some of the credit for sequencing the genome, despite doing nothing to help. I can't find a source on that right now though, of the lead scientist opening up a paper an being surprised it read "Monsanto sequences corn genome."
Anyway, no, the corn genome is not currently owned by monsanto, though if we're not careful I'm positive their lobbyists will find a way to steal it.