It is believed that a variation of CD4 confers resistance to the bubonic plague as well as HIV. There are supposedly communities in Europe (the UK IIRC) where this was selected for during the black death.
People who wanted sex changes could have their dna changed also. No. not like this. Sex is determined by the presence of a whole chromosome, not a piddly gene. Furthermore, swapping out chromosomes in somatic cells isn't going to cause your penis to fall off.
The scary part is that people who did not like a certain race of people could change that race genetically. The possiblities are endless. Again, not quite. There are some markers that strongly suggest various aspects of lineage, but nothing definitively proclaiming "I am Czech!" (Yes, that's ethnicity, not race. But the idea is the same for this nefarious purpose) For that matter, many people whom you might not suspect of having said markers will possess them e.g; there have been modern Africans living in Europe for several centuries.
In any event, this is not a generalized tool. You must try to breed an enzyme for each locus. You illinformed, paranoid ramblings did remind me of an interesting SF short though. "Written in Blood" by Chris Lawson. Some "wacky" Muslim biologist inserts an encoded copy of the Qu'ran into his DNA, and it kicks off a fad. Only later does he realize that he has provided something akin to the racial marker you were speaking of.
Actually, I just made those same points elsewhere in this discussion but with Political Compass coordinates of (-6.88, -4.46) I sure as hell am not a neo-con:-P
There is no such thing as a perfect law, and this one seems to have more benefits than possible detriments. You seem to have an odd definition of benefits.
So what? Just because Caller-ID is electronic, this does not make it in any way special. Are you then advocating for the illegality of spoofing email? What of forging the return to address on a piece of snail mail? Wearing my shirt with the printed "Hello My Name Is Sponge Bob Square Pants?" Halloween costumes?
Yes, you say that the police will ignore silly trangressions of the law. I say then, what purpose a law that is so readily flaunted or overly broad? Make it illegal to spoof (for anything) that you are, say, the police. But this obvious and probably hiddenaway somewhere on our prexisting labyrnthine legal code. Oh, wait, impersonating an officer. Isn't Romney's aide being looked at for that presently? Likewise for claiming to be from an insurance company, but instead being a con artist. We generally don't need new specialized laws for every stupid, "new", little thing. We need better application and reformation of exiting ones.
What I do not get from Google, though, is grouping all the results by a domain, language, author, etc. (for instance all the results from CNN.com grouped together). Actually, you do. It does it automagically whenever it decides there are too many (possibly similar) results from the domain. Regardless, a *threaded discussion* is not a set of search results.
There is no such thing as "the Web 2.0 world," just people fucking around with UIs, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. It's not Burger King, or a database, and they've no reason to serve you steak tartar on a bun just because you think it would be a good idea.
Bullshit. It was still sprung on them. Even if they knew that new rates would be determined whenever enough palms had been greased, they had no way of knowing to what extent people were going to fuck them over. So, once the term of the old rates lapsed, what were they supposed to do? Shut down, because Amazing Kreskin^WAC says they should have known they'd be screwed? Or keep on going, expecting things not to be too different?
Compare, for instance, a renter and a landlord. If I have a lease with my landlord to rent for $500 per month for a year and I make those payments everythings fine. If at the end of the year I continue on as a tenant at will, and still pay $500 per month, then everything's fine. The landlord cannot come back in three months and tell me that the new rent is $750 per month and I owe him $750 in back rent; regardless of whether or not he told me when the lease lapsed that he'd be raising the rent but hadn't decided how hard he wanted to screw me yet.
Network yes, AFS, probably not. Seems to me he wants a cheap distributed filesystem, probably closer to something Google uses... networked JBOD. Of course he doesn't say what he wants the cache for: Squid?
I'm guessing the hassle of managing AFS and its requirements (kerberos, synchronized time, client-side cache) are more than he'd like just to recover some disk space.
Now, unless you believe your representative is honest and/or clueful enough to act as you would in all cases, you have your answer. Representative democracy is no democracy at all when it's scaled up to today's levels; especially when the sheeple are hearded into a two party system.
No, it does not. In this case however, it does, particularly since it was used in a figurative sense. It is not at all silly (see, on the one hand you acknowledge that agedoes not correspond to maturity, the on the other hand you make that same supposition). There are many aspects of common/fundamentalist Islam that prevent it from working well in the modern world/cohabiting with others. That certainly sounds like a synonym for immature to me.
I would posit that if man ever lives to 500 years, it is likely that a centarian dating a bicentarian generally would not fare well. That's "an entire human lifespan" of difference in experience.
According to the Doomsday clock you shoudl still be worried about nuclear annhiliation, though not so much for the reasons Bush would have you believe (Axis of Aevil). No, we just numb to any given permanent/eminent threat that's yielded no major developments after awhile. Look at the people who live on top of active volcanoes (Vesuvius) for example.
So why don't you call them up and ask? Alternatively, try the community center, Elks lodge, what have you... Most of them are happy to host this kind of thing. You might even try getting your local LUG, Perl Mongers or similar group involved for additional support/guinea pigs.
It's not quite 1400 years old actually. Regardless, maturity does not directly relate to age, though it is a general indicator which I maintain holds up in this case. Even then, though the disparity is wide enough that it fails the "Can I date that rule?":
Granted, it's further along in it's development than say, Mormonism; a similar "growing up" point was made in another recent Frontline/American Experience mini-series "The Mormons."
You might be interested in the recent PBS series "America at a Crossroads" (really poor name choice) that looks at these and other issues surrounding Islam. Several times the point is indeed made that Islam is very young compared to the other "major religions" and needs to grow beyond this and other tendencies* to survive/thrive. The episode with the female, Canadian author is especially insightful.
* For instance the whole concept of "I disagree with what you say, but will fight for your right to
say it" is anathema to fundamentalist Islam. As currently held in many places, Islam has some pretty
twisted ideals; that's not to say that Christian fundamentalism ain't either, or that freedom of
thought and speech weren't ever brutally quashed by oh say... <insert Monty Python joke here>
Meh. Still not as important as C-a. And what's everyone's fascination with M-x shell? Emacs is a great editor, but a fucking terrible terminal emulator. Then again, I never bought into rmail either.
They *are* serious polluters. Per capita numbers are important, but mostly for gauging personal responsibility. Using them in this discussion as about as disingenious as Bush's use of CO2 per GDP (we'll ignore the bogosity of GDP for now). As long as your denominator (people, GDP) is growing at a faster pace than your numerator you're "reducing emissions" if you use thse kinds of stats.
No reasonable person would argue that China, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh etc. should not be allowed to develop. The argument is that they should not follow in our footsteps since, to mix metaphors, we've very nearly painted ourselves into a corner. No, the point is they need(ed) to leapfrog the whole dirty industrial revolution, raping of the commons and skip straight to the good stuff like industrial ecology, etc. Not only would doing so solve many problems, it might give them a legitimate competitive edge were they to iron out the kinks before everyone else got their act together.
For some reason I'm reminded of "Diamond Age" by Stephenson.
Even assuming your numbers weren't pulled from someone's nether regions... For a number of reasons, *simply planting trees* is not a viable solution. Tracking them down is left as an excercise for the reader.
Here's a few hints: water, micro-climate, wood, carbon cycle, sequestration
And fucking single species silviculture certainly ain't no panacea.
In the US sales tax is not federal (like VAT in Europe). It's determined by each state (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Orego have none), and there may be additional excises by various levels of local government (Solano County, CA to support the libraries; New York City, because a five-county city can do whatever the fuck it wants).
We have generic taxes on telecom infrastructure (they just repealed one last year), but apparently most/no places tax connection to the internet explicitly.
You're a moron. Neglecting elasticity, the point is who does the collection. Does the seller, or the consumer? i.e; in MA you're expected to self-report online purchases. Obviously very few people in MA buy anything online:-P
a) They weren't exactly "modern" b) Yes, they have, case in point c) There were a number of factors that contributed to their fall.
Nova produced an excellent episode about the series of unfortunate events. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
Some of the highlights as I recall are:
The towers were "cleverly" designed with most of their supporting beams in the outside walls. This means that having a large object moving at high speed ripping into the building seriously compromised the structure.
The joints and welding technique used were "sub-par."
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No, I'd say what they demonstrated was the breeding of an enzyme (Tre) that selects for HIV to insert LoxP.
It is believed that a variation of CD4 confers resistance to the bubonic plague as well as HIV.
There are supposedly communities in Europe (the UK IIRC) where this was selected for during the
black death.
not a piddly gene. Furthermore, swapping out chromosomes in somatic cells isn't
going to cause your penis to fall off. The scary part is that people who did not like a certain race of people could change that race genetically. The possiblities are endless. Again, not quite. There are some markers that strongly suggest various aspects of
lineage, but nothing definitively proclaiming "I am Czech!" (Yes, that's ethnicity, not race. But the idea is the same for this nefarious purpose) For that matter, many
people whom you might not suspect of having said markers will possess them e.g;
there have been modern Africans living in Europe for several centuries.
In any event, this is not a generalized tool. You must try to breed an enzyme for
each locus. You illinformed, paranoid ramblings did remind me of an interesting
SF short though. "Written in Blood" by Chris Lawson. Some "wacky" Muslim biologist
inserts an encoded copy of the Qu'ran into his DNA, and it kicks off a fad. Only
later does he realize that he has provided something akin to the racial marker
you were speaking of.
Actually, I just made those same points elsewhere in this discussion but with :-P
Political Compass coordinates of (-6.88, -4.46) I sure
as hell am not a neo-con
Well, everything but the crying Red.
So what? Just because Caller-ID is electronic, this does not make it in any way special. Are you then advocating for the illegality of spoofing email? What of
forging the return to address on a piece of snail mail? Wearing my shirt with
the printed "Hello My Name Is Sponge Bob Square Pants?" Halloween costumes?
Yes, you say that the police will ignore silly trangressions of the law. I say
then, what purpose a law that is so readily flaunted or overly broad? Make it
illegal to spoof (for anything) that you are, say, the police. But this obvious
and probably hiddenaway somewhere on our prexisting labyrnthine legal code. Oh,
wait, impersonating an officer. Isn't Romney's aide being looked at for that
presently? Likewise for claiming to be from an insurance company, but instead
being a con artist. We generally don't need new specialized laws for every stupid,
"new", little thing. We need better application and reformation of exiting ones.
etc. (for instance all the results from CNN.com grouped together). Actually, you do. It does it automagically whenever it decides there are too many (possibly similar)
results from the domain. Regardless, a *threaded discussion* is not a set of search results.
There is no such thing as "the Web 2.0 world," just people fucking around with UIs, sometimes for the better,
often for the worse. It's not Burger King, or a database, and they've no reason to serve you steak tartar on
a bun just because you think it would be a good idea.
That would require the site search to not suck donkey balls.
Try searching for say, advent. then try searching google with advent site:slashdot.org
How exactly is this better than the current comment karma cut-off scheme?
In particular, how is it not much worse for multi-page discussions?
Bullshit. It was still sprung on them. Even if they knew that new rates would be
determined whenever enough palms had been greased, they had no way of knowing to
what extent people were going to fuck them over. So, once the term of the old rates
lapsed, what were they supposed to do? Shut down, because Amazing Kreskin^WAC
says they should have known they'd be screwed? Or keep on going, expecting things
not to be too different?
Compare, for instance, a renter and a landlord. If I have a lease with my landlord
to rent for $500 per month for a year and I make those payments everythings fine.
If at the end of the year I continue on as a tenant at will, and still pay $500 per
month, then everything's fine. The landlord cannot come back in three months and tell
me that the new rent is $750 per month and I owe him $750 in back rent; regardless
of whether or not he told me when the lease lapsed that he'd be raising the rent but
hadn't decided how hard he wanted to screw me yet.
Why the articles of course.
Network yes, AFS, probably not. Seems to me he wants a cheap distributed filesystem,
probably closer to something Google uses... networked JBOD. Of course he doesn't say
what he wants the cache for: Squid?
I'm guessing the hassle of managing AFS and its requirements (kerberos, synchronized
time, client-side cache) are more than he'd like just to recover some disk space.
or their representatives
Now, unless you believe your representative is honest and/or clueful enough to act as you would in all cases,
you have your answer. Representative democracy is no democracy at all when it's scaled up to today's levels;
especially when the sheeple are hearded into a two party system.
but you sure as fuck can't read: 'intangible' ne 'imaginary'
No, it does not. In this case however, it does, particularly since it was used in a figurative sense.
It is not at all silly (see, on the one hand you acknowledge that agedoes not correspond to maturity,
the on the other hand you make that same supposition). There are many aspects of common/fundamentalist
Islam that prevent it from working well in the modern world/cohabiting with others. That certainly
sounds like a synonym for immature to me.
I would posit that if man ever lives to 500 years, it is likely that a centarian dating a bicentarian
generally would not fare well. That's "an entire human lifespan" of difference in experience.
According to the Doomsday clock you shoudl still be worried about nuclear annhiliation,
though not so much for the reasons Bush would have you believe (Axis of Aevil). No, we
just numb to any given permanent/eminent threat that's yielded no major developments
after awhile. Look at the people who live on top of active volcanoes (Vesuvius) for example.
So why don't you call them up and ask? Alternatively, try the community center, Elks lodge, what have you...
Most of them are happy to host this kind of thing. You might even try getting your local LUG, Perl Mongers
or similar group involved for additional support/guinea pigs.
It's not quite 1400 years old actually. Regardless, maturity does not directly relate to age,
though it is a general indicator which I maintain holds up in this case. Even then, though the
disparity is wide enough that it fails the "Can I date that rule?":
% perl -le 'print exp(log(1380)+.25)'
% 1771.95507502908
Granted, it's further along in it's development than say, Mormonism; a similar "growing up"
point was made in another recent Frontline/American Experience mini-series "The Mormons."
You might be interested in the recent PBS series "America at a Crossroads" (really poor name choice)
that looks at these and other issues surrounding Islam. Several times the point is indeed made that
Islam is very young compared to the other "major religions" and needs to grow beyond this and other
tendencies* to survive/thrive. The episode with the female, Canadian author is especially insightful.
* For instance the whole concept of "I disagree with what you say, but will fight for your right to
say it" is anathema to fundamentalist Islam. As currently held in many places, Islam has some pretty
twisted ideals; that's not to say that Christian fundamentalism ain't either, or that freedom of
thought and speech weren't ever brutally quashed by oh say... <insert Monty Python joke here>
Meh. Still not as important as C-a. And what's everyone's fascination with M-x shell? Emacs is a great editor,
but a fucking terrible terminal emulator. Then again, I never bought into rmail either.
They *are* serious polluters. Per capita numbers are important, but mostly for gauging personal responsibility.
Using them in this discussion as about as disingenious as Bush's use of CO2 per GDP (we'll ignore the bogosity
of GDP for now). As long as your denominator (people, GDP) is growing at a faster pace than your numerator you're
"reducing emissions" if you use thse kinds of stats.
No reasonable person would argue that China, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh etc. should not be allowed to develop.
The argument is that they should not follow in our footsteps since, to mix metaphors, we've very nearly painted
ourselves into a corner. No, the point is they need(ed) to leapfrog the whole dirty industrial revolution, raping
of the commons and skip straight to the good stuff like industrial ecology, etc. Not only would doing so solve
many problems, it might give them a legitimate competitive edge were they to iron out the kinks before everyone
else got their act together.
For some reason I'm reminded of "Diamond Age" by Stephenson.
Even assuming your numbers weren't pulled from someone's nether regions...
For a number of reasons, *simply planting trees* is not a viable solution.
Tracking them down is left as an excercise for the reader.
Here's a few hints: water, micro-climate, wood, carbon cycle, sequestration
And fucking single species silviculture certainly ain't no panacea.
What are you smoking? emacs-nox plays terribly with screen's default modifier of C-a. Blech.
escape ^uu
Yeah, that still clobbers something (repeat command N-times IIRC) but it ain't nearly as important as "Home."
In the US sales tax is not federal (like VAT in Europe). It's determined by each state
(Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Orego have none), and there may be
additional excises by various levels of local government (Solano County, CA to support
the libraries; New York City, because a five-county city can do whatever the fuck it wants).
We have generic taxes on telecom infrastructure (they just repealed one last year),
but apparently most/no places tax connection to the internet explicitly.
You're a moron. Neglecting elasticity, the point is who does the collection. Does the seller, or the consumer? :-P
i.e; in MA you're expected to self-report online purchases. Obviously very few people in MA buy anything online
a) They weren't exactly "modern"
b) Yes, they have, case in point
c) There were a number of factors that contributed to their fall.
Nova produced an excellent episode about the series of unfortunate events.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
Some of the highlights as I recall are:
The towers were "cleverly" designed with most of their supporting beams in the outside
walls. This means that having a large object moving at high speed ripping into the
building seriously compromised the structure.
The joints and welding technique used were "sub-par."
There was inadequate fire-shielding of the beams.