Could have fooled me. We still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration wants to cut everything to pay for a massive increase in military spending (on top of already spending more than anyone else), is screaming that Muslim extremist terrorists are everywhere, and certainly acts like everyone outside the GOP party is an anti-american enemy.
Frankly, I think the administration is by far the biggest national security threat facing America right now.
Serious violations of the constitution and freedom of the US, initiating wars of offense to prop up popularity, or colluding with foreign powers; all of those should make the administration an enemy. I can't rule out any of those being true of Trump. None of those require the context of war. Any definition of treason that doesn't cover those possibilities is not a great definition of treason.
I'm not talking constitutional law here, I'm not a lawyer, so take your response you're typing up now and cram it. There's obvious reasons not to put a mechanism for declaring a sitting president an enemy and a traitor and being able to punish him in that way, and I expect the founders assumed congress would have impeached such an individual or the people would rise up and sort things out. I dunno. Not everything needs to be legalese. Trump can be a traitor without there being a war going on.
Generally bacteria are less resistant to radiation, having only one chromosome and no backup copies. But you're right, Deinococcus radiodurans is tougher than water bears. I do wonder which can survive both radiation AND vaccum AND cold for longer.
I think though it's not just a facile "they're more like us." It sounds like it's also "so tardigrade mechanisms for handling radiation might be more useful to human health." D. Radiodurans seems like there's more fundamental differences in DNA. It would be harder to engineer human tissues to use bacterial mechanisms.
"To Democrats, it's the only way to stop the likes of AT&T, Comcast, Charter or Verizon from blocking competing services or charging media companies for faster delivery of their content." Not just to Democrats - pretty much anyone who understands networks just how evil these non-competing, money-stealing, progress-inhibiting ISP's can be.
Tardigrades are incredibly durable, and it's good not to just go shitting all over other planetary bodies, but I was wondering how overly cautious they're being. So I decided to try to figure it out, but I'm missing how much gamma radiation they'd be exposed to in ten years.
Humans will die despite medical treatment after 8 sv of radiation. I found that solar flares could produce 60 sv to an astronaut in a space suit. But after half an hour of searching, I couldn't find how much radiation a tardigrade would be exposed to over 10 years in whatever shielding is available on the probe.
There were thousands of articles on "how much radiation are you puny humans exposed to in the cushy ISS before NASA makes you come back down a few months later" and even more articles along the lines of "Human astronauts incompetent to undergo cryptobiosis, again in their nice space ships, would get too much radiation on just a little hop to mars." BUT NO FUCKING NUMBERS! Ugh, so unscientific AND anthropocentric!
I dunno, I think it would be an interesting experiment to see what level of cognitive dissonance trump supporters are capable of. The veneer of logical sounding words on the shit is already so transparent, yet they parrot it. Saying "it's a competitive market" is less immediately obvious bullshit than "We're going to have mexico pay for the wall." Most trump supporters aren't aware that ISPs basically have a monopoly most places.
I'd honestly be impressed if he just told his supporters that Obamacare had already been repealed and replaced by Trumpcare.
Hotter weather is associated with more violence. This is particularly true in Chicago, shootings go way up in summer. So kind of a mixed bag. A surprising number of chicagoans think the city is actually dangerous. It's not by any reasonable metric but if enough people start thinking it actually is dangerous outside of the south side, I suspect people would start leaving.
Russia certainly has a long-term interest in climate change. They have few resources aside from fossil fuels, and climate change might produce more arable land there.
If the liberal side had half the brains and attention span the conservative side does, they'd be looking into whether Trump and co are buying up current arctic land that will be more useful if the worst-case climate change scenarios are true.
Not sure whether to mod you "+1 Informative" or "+1 funny" or "-1 troll" or "+20 more self-awareness and honesty than the vast majority of the boomer generation."
In case it wasn't clear, I'm not looking at his industry with desperate optimism. I'm not working in that industry. I'll take your word for it that once he hits 40, the computer masters will declare him useless and he'll be put out to pasture in Sacramento or something, but I'm not fooling myself about an industry I'm not in at all.
People Everywhere - That's PRECISELY the PROBLEM. I dunno exactly when it happened, but general public civility and manners has long since disappeared from the populace.
I'd offer two non-mutually exclusive alternative explanations. 1: You're less impressed with the big screen because your smaller screen is a lot better than it was in the past. 2: You're older and grumpier.
People have always been annoying at movie theaters. Possibly more annoying since they evidently were more likely to attack you. You just notice it more now and don't have any numbers to disprove your opinion.
Having no experience in the IT/computer/beep-boop industry or bay area, I'd assume he's got to be impressing some people who could offer him a more steady job. From what I can tell, having a computer, clothing, and a space to sleep near the bay area is enough for a bunch of monied morons to fling cash at you.
This is not a defense of the gig economy or his choices, just this guy in particular in that particular location doesn't seem like he's disadvantaged in the slightest.
"Opulent campuses" is a tricky one to quantify objectively. There's a lot of cherrypicking data. "A SCHOOL IN BOSTON HAS AN INDOOR HEATED POOL, OMFG." doesn't say shit about all those other places tuition is raising that don't.
Two days ago: congress strips internet privacy protections against ISPs
Yesterday: Crowdfunding and cards against humanity announce they'll buy the internet histories of the congresspeople who voted for it
Today: ISPs announce they won't be selling individual histories
I guess with the psychopath in the white house, there's really no need to be subtle anymore.
Sidenote: every congress person who voted for it was republican. House vote and Senate vote. The protections rolled back were from Obama. Tell me both sides are equally bad.
I should have said "SOME kids in high school," but you should have too. Not all top-level STEM professionals know from high school what they want to be.
What's your point anyway? Kids should be allowed to take whatever they want in high school and no efforts should be made to encourage them to pursue STEM? I suppose the current study suggest you might be right. But I think we should err on the side of not letting teenagers skip out on maths and science.
Yes, they're not the ones doing shit physically on university campuses. Online, I've never seen "social justice warriors" harass like "men's rights activists." I've never seen any "anti-white bullshit" that stood up as genuinely anti-white after spending 10 seconds reading what was actually going on.
I remember the conservative side also being a lot more angry and violent when we had a democratically elected black man in office. Now that we have an undemocratically elected regressive in office, liberals are evil for being upset?
Presumably they are going to say "No, we're not breaking minnesota's privacy laws" a lot, followed by "prove it in court" followed by "Oops, we're sorry, here's the slap on the wrist fees" followed by "No, we're not breaking minnesota's privacy laws"...
You're incapable of being a ballerina. Women are capable of becoming STEM professionals. This should be obvious, but to a lot of slashdotters, it seems like it is not.
Back on topic, there's some evidence to suggest women don't become STEM professionals because of choices they make in classes early on. In high school, I had some idea I wanted to be a scientist, but I had no idea what I was getting into. If someone had said "Hey, you should be a lawyer" after a boring math class, I might have ended up as a lawyer. Kids in high school often don't really know what they want to do. Things like "My friend doesn't like math or science so I don't either" can strongly influence career choices. It's disappointing that making kids take math classes doesn't have an effect on those mindsets. I think we need more scientific types, though I am biased.
There was a lot of BS about the link to cancer though. Their strategy was diversified, they realized that congress would be swayed by jobs in tobacco districts, not pseudoscience. But you have to admit there were a lot of people up until the 90's at least who were fooled by pro-tobacco FUD about the link to cancer. There were smokers who were convinced tobacco wasn't bad for you. They weren't getting that from their doctors or real scientists or infowars.
Likewise, big coal is whining about jobs jobs jobs won't someone think of the poor coal miners, nevermind we're the ones firing them and replacing them with more automation. Running prime time commercials of "Climate change isn't really real" is likely to backfire. That doesn't mean they're not pursuing lies in parallel.
The alt-right have made up a new insult? STOP THE PRESSES!
I'm still confused as to why both political sides decided "the elites" needed to be thrown out. We knew they weren't great, but they were a known, sane quantity. Corruption charges were fairly boring or obviously nonsense. The "outsider" in office now on the other hand seems to do things without rhyme or reason. "Cut funding for cancer research and build a wall that will be less effective than the great wall of China!" And the accusations of corruption are "He's running the government regulating his own businesses he's still running" are pretty plainly obvious.
Now we've decided that the twitter elites are a problem? Not the anonymous eggs harassing sane people and putting up frog memes that don't make sense?
I enjoy making fun of alt-nazis as much as anyone else, but lets actually make fun of them. Pretending they have valid opinions is dangerous.
Science withstands scrutiny and skepticism, not financially motivated ignorance. Industries that make money on the tragedy of the commons paid for these laws and Lamar Smith. This isn't scrutiny.
Replicate, one way or the other, the greenhouse effect on a planetary level. You can't. Guess the EPA has no business regulating greenhouse emissions. If it were real science, we'd have multiple earths we'd be testing on.
My head hurts at your comment. Privacy is not like life. If you die, the damage is done. If you lose your online privacy, you can be private again the next day by switching. Furthermore, the exact same thing is true of ISPs, except again, you can't switch quite as easily.
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Hint: we're not at war.
Could have fooled me. We still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration wants to cut everything to pay for a massive increase in military spending (on top of already spending more than anyone else), is screaming that Muslim extremist terrorists are everywhere, and certainly acts like everyone outside the GOP party is an anti-american enemy.
Frankly, I think the administration is by far the biggest national security threat facing America right now.
Serious violations of the constitution and freedom of the US, initiating wars of offense to prop up popularity, or colluding with foreign powers; all of those should make the administration an enemy. I can't rule out any of those being true of Trump. None of those require the context of war. Any definition of treason that doesn't cover those possibilities is not a great definition of treason.
I'm not talking constitutional law here, I'm not a lawyer, so take your response you're typing up now and cram it. There's obvious reasons not to put a mechanism for declaring a sitting president an enemy and a traitor and being able to punish him in that way, and I expect the founders assumed congress would have impeached such an individual or the people would rise up and sort things out. I dunno. Not everything needs to be legalese. Trump can be a traitor without there being a war going on.
B) you found a field ripe for valuable research, quick, start your PhD program before someone steals your ideas!
LOL. But FUCK NO!
Generally bacteria are less resistant to radiation, having only one chromosome and no backup copies. But you're right, Deinococcus radiodurans is tougher than water bears. I do wonder which can survive both radiation AND vaccum AND cold for longer.
I think though it's not just a facile "they're more like us." It sounds like it's also "so tardigrade mechanisms for handling radiation might be more useful to human health." D. Radiodurans seems like there's more fundamental differences in DNA. It would be harder to engineer human tissues to use bacterial mechanisms.
"To Democrats, it's the only way to stop the likes of AT&T, Comcast, Charter or Verizon from blocking competing services or charging media companies for faster delivery of their content." Not just to Democrats - pretty much anyone who understands networks just how evil these non-competing, money-stealing, progress-inhibiting ISP's can be.
Right. Democrats.
Tardigrades are incredibly durable, and it's good not to just go shitting all over other planetary bodies, but I was wondering how overly cautious they're being. So I decided to try to figure it out, but I'm missing how much gamma radiation they'd be exposed to in ten years.
For anyone else curious:
Tardigrades don't thrive in extreme environments so they wouldn't be breeding like crazy. They do go into hibernation without water or oxygen and can last in that state for at least a hundred years
Median lethal doses of for tardigrades was 4400 Gy gamma radiation outside of water over 48 hours, though over 1000 gys made them sterile.
Humans will die despite medical treatment after 8 sv of radiation. I found that solar flares could produce 60 sv to an astronaut in a space suit. But after half an hour of searching, I couldn't find how much radiation a tardigrade would be exposed to over 10 years in whatever shielding is available on the probe.
There were thousands of articles on "how much radiation are you puny humans exposed to in the cushy ISS before NASA makes you come back down a few months later" and even more articles along the lines of "Human astronauts incompetent to undergo cryptobiosis, again in their nice space ships, would get too much radiation on just a little hop to mars." BUT NO FUCKING NUMBERS! Ugh, so unscientific AND anthropocentric!
I dunno, I think it would be an interesting experiment to see what level of cognitive dissonance trump supporters are capable of. The veneer of logical sounding words on the shit is already so transparent, yet they parrot it. Saying "it's a competitive market" is less immediately obvious bullshit than "We're going to have mexico pay for the wall." Most trump supporters aren't aware that ISPs basically have a monopoly most places.
I'd honestly be impressed if he just told his supporters that Obamacare had already been repealed and replaced by Trumpcare.
Hotter weather is associated with more violence. This is particularly true in Chicago, shootings go way up in summer. So kind of a mixed bag. A surprising number of chicagoans think the city is actually dangerous. It's not by any reasonable metric but if enough people start thinking it actually is dangerous outside of the south side, I suspect people would start leaving.
Russia certainly has a long-term interest in climate change. They have few resources aside from fossil fuels, and climate change might produce more arable land there.
If the liberal side had half the brains and attention span the conservative side does, they'd be looking into whether Trump and co are buying up current arctic land that will be more useful if the worst-case climate change scenarios are true.
I'm picturing an old neckbeard dude saying "Usher, please remove this man, he cited a gallup poll!"
Where are you going that they still have ushers you can find BTW?
Not sure whether to mod you "+1 Informative" or "+1 funny" or "-1 troll" or "+20 more self-awareness and honesty than the vast majority of the boomer generation."
Oh, that last one isn't an option.
Oh, I'm commenting so never mind anyway.
In case it wasn't clear, I'm not looking at his industry with desperate optimism. I'm not working in that industry. I'll take your word for it that once he hits 40, the computer masters will declare him useless and he'll be put out to pasture in Sacramento or something, but I'm not fooling myself about an industry I'm not in at all.
People Everywhere - That's PRECISELY the PROBLEM. I dunno exactly when it happened, but general public civility and manners has long since disappeared from the populace.
Citation needed. The best quantifiable proxy for "general public civility" I can think of would be violent crime. Anyone not drinking fox-news koolaid should know, violent crime is way down.
Making up some idiotic mythical past when everything was much better, on the other hand, seems to be at an all time high.
I'd offer two non-mutually exclusive alternative explanations. 1: You're less impressed with the big screen because your smaller screen is a lot better than it was in the past. 2: You're older and grumpier.
People have always been annoying at movie theaters. Possibly more annoying since they evidently were more likely to attack you. You just notice it more now and don't have any numbers to disprove your opinion.
Having no experience in the IT/computer/beep-boop industry or bay area, I'd assume he's got to be impressing some people who could offer him a more steady job. From what I can tell, having a computer, clothing, and a space to sleep near the bay area is enough for a bunch of monied morons to fling cash at you.
This is not a defense of the gig economy or his choices, just this guy in particular in that particular location doesn't seem like he's disadvantaged in the slightest.
"Opulent campuses" is a tricky one to quantify objectively. There's a lot of cherrypicking data. "A SCHOOL IN BOSTON HAS AN INDOOR HEATED POOL, OMFG." doesn't say shit about all those other places tuition is raising that don't.
Administrator cancer is more documented.
You left out though funding cuts. Boomers took their cheap education then decided fuck the greedy next generations. More than a little projection there. "These selfish millennial assholes don't deserve indoor pools! I want my taxes to be $20 lower instead!
Two days ago: congress strips internet privacy protections against ISPs
Yesterday: Crowdfunding and cards against humanity announce they'll buy the internet histories of the congresspeople who voted for it
Today: ISPs announce they won't be selling individual histories
I guess with the psychopath in the white house, there's really no need to be subtle anymore.
Sidenote: every congress person who voted for it was republican. House vote and Senate vote. The protections rolled back were from Obama. Tell me both sides are equally bad.
I should have said "SOME kids in high school," but you should have too. Not all top-level STEM professionals know from high school what they want to be.
What's your point anyway? Kids should be allowed to take whatever they want in high school and no efforts should be made to encourage them to pursue STEM? I suppose the current study suggest you might be right. But I think we should err on the side of not letting teenagers skip out on maths and science.
AC said "big fat gut." I might be misunderstanding the requirements of ballet dancer, but I assume that rules out a career in ballet.
Yes, they're not the ones doing shit physically on university campuses. Online, I've never seen "social justice warriors" harass like "men's rights activists." I've never seen any "anti-white bullshit" that stood up as genuinely anti-white after spending 10 seconds reading what was actually going on.
I remember the conservative side also being a lot more angry and violent when we had a democratically elected black man in office. Now that we have an undemocratically elected regressive in office, liberals are evil for being upset?
Jesus...
Presumably they are going to say "No, we're not breaking minnesota's privacy laws" a lot, followed by "prove it in court" followed by "Oops, we're sorry, here's the slap on the wrist fees" followed by "No, we're not breaking minnesota's privacy laws"...
You're incapable of being a ballerina. Women are capable of becoming STEM professionals. This should be obvious, but to a lot of slashdotters, it seems like it is not.
Back on topic, there's some evidence to suggest women don't become STEM professionals because of choices they make in classes early on. In high school, I had some idea I wanted to be a scientist, but I had no idea what I was getting into. If someone had said "Hey, you should be a lawyer" after a boring math class, I might have ended up as a lawyer. Kids in high school often don't really know what they want to do. Things like "My friend doesn't like math or science so I don't either" can strongly influence career choices. It's disappointing that making kids take math classes doesn't have an effect on those mindsets. I think we need more scientific types, though I am biased.
There was a lot of BS about the link to cancer though. Their strategy was diversified, they realized that congress would be swayed by jobs in tobacco districts, not pseudoscience. But you have to admit there were a lot of people up until the 90's at least who were fooled by pro-tobacco FUD about the link to cancer. There were smokers who were convinced tobacco wasn't bad for you. They weren't getting that from their doctors or real scientists or infowars.
Likewise, big coal is whining about jobs jobs jobs won't someone think of the poor coal miners, nevermind we're the ones firing them and replacing them with more automation. Running prime time commercials of "Climate change isn't really real" is likely to backfire. That doesn't mean they're not pursuing lies in parallel.
The alt-right have made up a new insult? STOP THE PRESSES!
I'm still confused as to why both political sides decided "the elites" needed to be thrown out. We knew they weren't great, but they were a known, sane quantity. Corruption charges were fairly boring or obviously nonsense. The "outsider" in office now on the other hand seems to do things without rhyme or reason. "Cut funding for cancer research and build a wall that will be less effective than the great wall of China!" And the accusations of corruption are "He's running the government regulating his own businesses he's still running" are pretty plainly obvious.
Now we've decided that the twitter elites are a problem? Not the anonymous eggs harassing sane people and putting up frog memes that don't make sense?
I enjoy making fun of alt-nazis as much as anyone else, but lets actually make fun of them. Pretending they have valid opinions is dangerous.
Good science withstands close scrutiny and is dam hard to deny.
And yet some 50 years after it was proven, the link between smoking and cancer was still "Well, we don't really know, do we?"
Science withstands scrutiny and skepticism, not financially motivated ignorance. Industries that make money on the tragedy of the commons paid for these laws and Lamar Smith. This isn't scrutiny.
Replicate, one way or the other, the greenhouse effect on a planetary level. You can't. Guess the EPA has no business regulating greenhouse emissions. If it were real science, we'd have multiple earths we'd be testing on.
I dunno, let's che.... oh...
My head hurts at your comment. Privacy is not like life. If you die, the damage is done. If you lose your online privacy, you can be private again the next day by switching. Furthermore, the exact same thing is true of ISPs, except again, you can't switch quite as easily.