If I remember correctly, Discovery magazine has an article many years ago discussing the fact that scientists had traced human ancestry back umpteen thousands of years to a single female (who's name is withheld to protect her privacy) using mitochondrial DNA, which apparently does not join with the father's, but remains intact from generation to generation.
I'll leave up to someone without a job to look it up.
What makes you think there would be a pay off in 100 years?
What are the deliverables here really? They are not going to come up with anything that has not already been explored by people like Arthur C.Clarke, Issac Asimov, Ben Bova, Robert Heinlein etc.
They are essentially giving $500,000 to a bunch of people to sit on their ass and day dream.
And where are the private Investors? Running away from this stupidity like any sensible person would.
Bottom line for jandersen is that AGW is NOT important enough to solve it with the technology we have not, that works, and is practical. Sure, it can and will get better. But the longer you keep whining about it, the longer it is until we get it under control.
He'd rather we solve it they way HE wants, through restrictions and taxes. Hey, who's agenda is that? Hippies and wacko environmentalists.
And then there's the Shut up, you don't know what your talking about thing. Yeah, standard fall back position of assholes and jerk wads.
You aren't. Go ahead and do it right now. Post that Nuclear is the answer and that they should quite bitching and arguing over ice sheets and just build out nuclear. Then YOUR problem goes away and MY problems goes away and we are all happy campers. I expet that will stick in your craw and you won't be able to do it without all kinds of Ifs and Buts.
"The fact you think Al Gore has anything to do with actual science"
The fact that you don't understand that Al Gore is major driver of the political component shows you are clueless as t how our nation works. "Experts" don't get to wave their hand and summon new public policy.
If the Alarmists TRULY believe in what they are preaching, they would be advocating wildly for Nuclear power in whatever form. Thorium, molten salt, boiling water, whatever and further, be agitating for more research into smaller, better plants. Because nuclear is the ONLY viable replacement for base load requirements.
Just think of the progress we could have made by now if in the last 15 years there was a full court press on designing a safe and efficient nuclear plant instead of spending millions of dollars trying to gin up enough evidence to convince the majority of people to revert 100 years into the past.
But they don't. Instead, they do advocate strenuously for the transparent radical hippie Green Agenda, that says we should all live in communes and eat bug, twigs, and nuts. Or, if you want to be more ominous, AGW is the perfect vehicle to do what 40 years of cold war could not do , which is to bring Soviet style communism to the States. But only if you want to be ominous.
The bottom line is they only want to solve this "problem" by using THEIR solutions and programs. Or perhaps they invented this "problem" so that they could force their way of living on the majority.
So until I see Hansen, et. al. before Congress advocating for nuclear power, I'll just assume they are a bunch of environmentalist control freaks looking to force others into living they way they deem is correct. Of course the radical environmentalist wackos won't live that way...see Al Gore.
Unbearable my ass. We have had over 50 days of temps over 100 degrees here in TX. Everyone is doing just fine. We broke two records!...but they were set in the 20s...whoops. It's taken us almost 100 years to get back to where we were in the 20s.
Just once I'd like to see a "corporation". What do they look like? Are they tall? Short? Fat? What language do they speak? Where do they live?
"Corporation" is like "they". When you don't have an argument for anything, you just blame it on "They" or the "Corporations".
Corporations are people, private individuals, working together towards a common goal, producing and selling a product. You bitch about Corporations polluting, you are really bitching about individuals doing their jobs. Don't like trucks? Don't blame the corporations, blame UAW. They are the fuckers building them.
Sure, it's easy to blame a faceless entity, but I dare, you. Go up to a UAW worker and tell them they are polluting the planet and will be the cause of untold suffering. I bet you'll get to keep some of your teeth.
BTW, Slashdot is owned and run by a "corporation", Geeknet Inc.
Stuff like this is largely out of the hands of a President. It's part and parcel of the whole Ship of State thing. The Captain only gets to point which way to go. Things go on below desks that he has no clue or real control over.
What I mean is that the code would execute on the client (unless I wanted it on the server) so you don't have to keep checking...is this a fucking post back? Then do this. If not, the never mind.
Well, my point is that THEY would implement it or technology like it in the client and I wouldn't have to learn another damned technology. And by the OS GUI, I mean that if I wanted a Combo box, it would be there...the standard Windows Combox box, directly from the Windows API. I wouldn't have to download some extension or dll and then go through some bullshit implementing it.
I believe he/she meant that nuclear missiles can also project power in a matter of hours and that hasn't seemed to impress people.
Pretty good point but of course it's the difference between threatening someone on your lawn with a Maverick missile as opposed to a paintball gun. They will more inclined to believe that you will leave them with painful welts rather than obliterate them with the Maverick.
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If I remember correctly, Discovery magazine has an article many years ago discussing the fact that scientists had traced human ancestry back umpteen thousands of years to a single female (who's name is withheld to protect her privacy) using mitochondrial DNA, which apparently does not join with the father's, but remains intact from generation to generation.
I'll leave up to someone without a job to look it up.
One wonders where the state of the art is as far as neuro-electrical interconnections.
All the expertise cited in the article IS here. It is just relegated to small specialty shops that cater to small runs.
Seriously though...I need it to sort and classify my porn collection.
What makes you think there would be a pay off in 100 years?
What are the deliverables here really? They are not going to come up with anything that has not already been explored by people like Arthur C.Clarke, Issac Asimov, Ben Bova, Robert Heinlein etc.
They are essentially giving $500,000 to a bunch of people to sit on their ass and day dream.
And where are the private Investors? Running away from this stupidity like any sensible person would.
Fortunately the methodology does not appear to have been used by criminals ye
But they'll be sure to get on it right away now that they have been clued in.
Then you and you buddies have lots of work to do because the majority of Slashdotters like and understand Nuclear about as much as they do Fox News.
Bottom line for jandersen is that AGW is NOT important enough to solve it with the technology we have not, that works, and is practical. Sure, it can and will get better. But the longer you keep whining about it, the longer it is until we get it under control.
He'd rather we solve it they way HE wants, through restrictions and taxes. Hey, who's agenda is that? Hippies and wacko environmentalists.
And then there's the Shut up, you don't know what your talking about thing. Yeah, standard fall back position of assholes and jerk wads.
"We are."
You aren't. Go ahead and do it right now. Post that Nuclear is the answer and that they should quite bitching and arguing over ice sheets and just build out nuclear. Then YOUR problem goes away and MY problems goes away and we are all happy campers. I expet that will stick in your craw and you won't be able to do it without all kinds of Ifs and Buts.
"The fact you think Al Gore has anything to do with actual science"
The fact that you don't understand that Al Gore is major driver of the political component shows you are clueless as t how our nation works. "Experts" don't get to wave their hand and summon new public policy.
If the Alarmists TRULY believe in what they are preaching, they would be advocating wildly for Nuclear power in whatever form. Thorium, molten salt, boiling water, whatever and further, be agitating for more research into smaller, better plants. Because nuclear is the ONLY viable replacement for base load requirements.
Just think of the progress we could have made by now if in the last 15 years there was a full court press on designing a safe and efficient nuclear plant instead of spending millions of dollars trying to gin up enough evidence to convince the majority of people to revert 100 years into the past.
But they don't. Instead, they do advocate strenuously for the transparent radical hippie Green Agenda, that says we should all live in communes and eat bug, twigs, and nuts. Or, if you want to be more ominous, AGW is the perfect vehicle to do what 40 years of cold war could not do , which is to bring Soviet style communism to the States. But only if you want to be ominous.
The bottom line is they only want to solve this "problem" by using THEIR solutions and programs. Or perhaps they invented this "problem" so that they could force their way of living on the majority.
So until I see Hansen, et. al. before Congress advocating for nuclear power, I'll just assume they are a bunch of environmentalist control freaks looking to force others into living they way they deem is correct. Of course the radical environmentalist wackos won't live that way...see Al Gore.
Unbearable my ass. We have had over 50 days of temps over 100 degrees here in TX. Everyone is doing just fine. We broke two records!...but they were set in the 20s...whoops. It's taken us almost 100 years to get back to where we were in the 20s.
On Slashdot, "Corporations" mean people who don't agree with my political view.
Just once I'd like to see a "corporation". What do they look like? Are they tall? Short? Fat? What language do they speak? Where do they live?
"Corporation" is like "they". When you don't have an argument for anything, you just blame it on "They" or the "Corporations".
Corporations are people, private individuals, working together towards a common goal, producing and selling a product. You bitch about Corporations polluting, you are really bitching about individuals doing their jobs. Don't like trucks? Don't blame the corporations, blame UAW. They are the fuckers building them.
Sure, it's easy to blame a faceless entity, but I dare, you. Go up to a UAW worker and tell them they are polluting the planet and will be the cause of untold suffering. I bet you'll get to keep some of your teeth.
BTW, Slashdot is owned and run by a "corporation", Geeknet Inc.
I sure hope these morons didn't get government funding for this bullshit.
When are they going to start calling these thing YAPython and YAPerl?
I have more than once ended up on some stupid survey page after entering common urls...like www.slashdot.org.
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We'll call it a serendipitous typo.
Judging from how much carbon I create whenever I try baking, I"m sure there has to be a butt load of graphene in the oven
Stuff like this is largely out of the hands of a President. It's part and parcel of the whole Ship of State thing. The Captain only gets to point which way to go. Things go on below desks that he has no clue or real control over.
We are being ruled by bureaucrats.
The Government is off its meds.
Only that could account for the schizoid policy decisions.
What I mean is that the code would execute on the client (unless I wanted it on the server) so you don't have to keep checking...is this a fucking post back? Then do this. If not, the never mind.
Well, my point is that THEY would implement it or technology like it in the client and I wouldn't have to learn another damned technology. And by the OS GUI, I mean that if I wanted a Combo box, it would be there...the standard Windows Combox box, directly from the Windows API. I wouldn't have to download some extension or dll and then go through some bullshit implementing it.
Wait...are you talking cost effectiveness with regards to the military?
True dat.
I believe he/she meant that nuclear missiles can also project power in a matter of hours and that hasn't seemed to impress people.
Pretty good point but of course it's the difference between threatening someone on your lawn with a Maverick missile as opposed to a paintball gun. They will more inclined to believe that you will leave them with painful welts rather than obliterate them with the Maverick.