No thanks. I'm a coffee drinker, and the tea partiers are straight up fascists.
Seriously, people said this through 12 years of Bush, 8 years of Clinton, and 8 years of Reagan.
Yes, we're going on 4 decades now without any accountability for unconstitutional actions by the executive. Doesn't that bother you?
The reality is that most of the HSA, TSA and health care actions taken by this administration (by it's own choice) have origins in either the Bush administration or conservative thinkers. Suddenly it's against the Constitution because it's a Democrat wanting to do it.
No sir. They are just as unconstitutional now as they were then. Bush absolutely made unprecedented grabs for executive power, but even he didn't have the gall to openly assassinate people.
The parent post has your high crime listed in it. He has deprived US citizens of their life with no due process. He doesn't even bother to deny it. It's pretty black and white.
This also means you can run Unity games on the RaspberryPi or similar.
When was the last time a closed source proprietary applicaiton was released for ARM Linux? You will get the architectures they deem profitable to support, no more, no less.
The fact that Obama hasn't been impeached yet is the most damning indictment of our political system I could imagine. He has utterly failed in his oath to uphold the Constitution.
Now that's awesome. Pulling that off at home would be difficult, but doable. Sounds like fun. Doing PCR from scratch at home would be quite the accomplishment.
The real solution is to decrease your reliance on the mouse. Use a tiling window manager(e.g. Awesome) and a browser that uses hinting(e.g. pentadactyl), and an editor like vim, and you hardly ever need to use the mouse.
There's an amazing world revealed just by painting cells with the right chemicals, and it's completely appropriate for the home biologist.
It's pretty, but the point of DIY bio is to contribute to science or create a novel technology. We're not talking about setting up demos for kids.
Maybe I'm just spoiled from working in a biology lab for years, but what sort of questions can you actually answer without techniques like IHC, western blotting, and transgenics?
Depends on what you're doing. If you're doing PCR to screen a large number of transformants, or if you're using the dNTPs to synthesize your own oligos, you'll go through a lot.
IMO, this is where the focus of DIY bio should be for a while. Try and find out how to get expensive reagents for reasonable prices. dNTPs are just one example. What are these people staining their gels with anyway? Ethidium bromide is somewhat toxic, and Sybr safe is fairly expensive.
Also, are people doing histology at home? You might be able to produce your own antibodies, if you keep rabbits. But can you conjugate fluorescent markers to them?
What about western blots? Is polyacrylamide available to the hobbyist?
I guess what I'm saying is that there's a lot that can be done, but also a lot that can't be done at home on the cheap. We're still in the phase where the most important research is on techniques, not biology.
Decline? It's shit like this that gets me into theatres. Before Avatar came out, I hadn't seen a movie in a theatre in a decade. Since Avatar came out, I saw it, Up and Star Trek, all 3 in 3d, and two of three in IMAX. If you're not showing off top of the line equipment, I'll just watch it at home.
If my local theatre can display The Hobbit in 48FPS, I will attend. If they do not, I will not. Simple as that.
Yes, idealism should be tempered by practicality. Tell me, as a practical matter, how is censorship better than counter propaganda?
Do you think that these people are just going to go away if you censor them? Do you think censorship won't help them paint themselves as persecuted, and serve as a marketing tool for them?
If you think Islamist propaganda is an effective recruitment tool, wouldn't anti-islamist propganda be just as effective? How are you going to counter their arguments if their indoctrination isn't taking place in public?
You can call me a fundamentalist if you like, but you haven't shown any reason to think that censorship is going to be effective. It certainly sets a nice precedent for suppressing dissenting opinions on Youtube though.
In a world with a strong public commons, private restrictions on speech don't affect free speech much. But in a world where the public commons has been impoverished, where almost everything is owned and controlled by (and to benefit) private interests, then freedom of speech only belongs to those who own the means of communication. That's not what we should expect from a democracy.
We once made it illegal to censor or tamper with communications on the state of the art communication network of the day... the US Postal Service. All the arguments in favor of a free and secure postal service apply to communication channels of all sorts.
If there were a public internet where free speech was protected, then yes I could see how Google's actions weren't contrary to free speech. But since we only have one internet, it should be operated for the public good, and the same restrictions should apply to private companies as would apply to the government.
Unfortunately, our Constitution is inadequate to provide this kind of protection, but that doesn't mean this restriction on free speech is "OK".
If I wasn't clear, I was talking about what should be, not what is. Our government already has way too much power. We need more restrictions written into the constitution, and making warrants mandatory for all non-public information would be an effective and fair check on government power.
I can't get information from Google, because Google will say no. If I can't do it, the government shouldn't be able to do it without a warrant. Therefore, the government should have to get a warrant before accessing any information that isn't freely available to the public at large.
Government has been able to ask business for assistance since the founding of our country, and it does not run counter to the letter or spirit of the Constitution
And that's a huge part of what is wrong with this country. The government should have absolutely no special priviliges, unless it gets a warrant. If I can't do it, neither should the FBI, unless they can convince a judge that it's OK. No exceptions.
Exactly, the FDA is a means for the pharmaceutical industry to profit and prey on the weak. If you can't get cheap drugs from Canada, you'll buy the overpriced American drugs.
If they really cared about the patient's health, they'd be figuring out ways to get real drugs to patients for a reasonable price without importing. But I don't see that happening.
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Pass the tea, please.
No thanks. I'm a coffee drinker, and the tea partiers are straight up fascists.
Seriously, people said this through 12 years of Bush, 8 years of Clinton, and 8 years of Reagan.
Yes, we're going on 4 decades now without any accountability for unconstitutional actions by the executive. Doesn't that bother you?
The reality is that most of the HSA, TSA and health care actions taken by this administration (by it's own choice) have origins in either the Bush administration or conservative thinkers. Suddenly it's against the Constitution because it's a Democrat wanting to do it.
No sir. They are just as unconstitutional now as they were then. Bush absolutely made unprecedented grabs for executive power, but even he didn't have the gall to openly assassinate people.
The parent post has your high crime listed in it. He has deprived US citizens of their life with no due process. He doesn't even bother to deny it. It's pretty black and white.
This also means you can run Unity games on the RaspberryPi or similar.
When was the last time a closed source proprietary applicaiton was released for ARM Linux? You will get the architectures they deem profitable to support, no more, no less.
The fact that Obama hasn't been impeached yet is the most damning indictment of our political system I could imagine. He has utterly failed in his oath to uphold the Constitution.
Now that's awesome. Pulling that off at home would be difficult, but doable. Sounds like fun. Doing PCR from scratch at home would be quite the accomplishment.
The real solution is to decrease your reliance on the mouse. Use a tiling window manager(e.g. Awesome) and a browser that uses hinting(e.g. pentadactyl), and an editor like vim, and you hardly ever need to use the mouse.
There's an amazing world revealed just by painting cells with the right chemicals, and it's completely appropriate for the home biologist.
It's pretty, but the point of DIY bio is to contribute to science or create a novel technology. We're not talking about setting up demos for kids.
Maybe I'm just spoiled from working in a biology lab for years, but what sort of questions can you actually answer without techniques like IHC, western blotting, and transgenics?
How about a kickstarter to liberate the source of Unity?
Cops around here stake out the hydroponics stores, get license plates from customers, and then harass them.
until the day when a movie can stand up against the best novels and plays without flinching, I will not go to the movies.
When the primary attraction of the movie is the plot, what's the point of actually going to the theatre? You can get all the plot you want at home.
Depends on what you're doing. If you're doing PCR to screen a large number of transformants, or if you're using the dNTPs to synthesize your own oligos, you'll go through a lot.
IMO, this is where the focus of DIY bio should be for a while. Try and find out how to get expensive reagents for reasonable prices. dNTPs are just one example. What are these people staining their gels with anyway? Ethidium bromide is somewhat toxic, and Sybr safe is fairly expensive.
Also, are people doing histology at home? You might be able to produce your own antibodies, if you keep rabbits. But can you conjugate fluorescent markers to them?
What about western blots? Is polyacrylamide available to the hobbyist?
I guess what I'm saying is that there's a lot that can be done, but also a lot that can't be done at home on the cheap. We're still in the phase where the most important research is on techniques, not biology.
You know what, you're right. I had misremembered. Star Trek was on IMAX. Up I saw in 3d but no IMAX.
That's strange, I swear I saw another IMAX 3d movie in the past couple years but I can't remember what it was.
Bio is still pretty expensive. Even simple techniques like PCR require highly purified reagents. For instance, how does one purify dNTPs at home?
Decline? It's shit like this that gets me into theatres. Before Avatar came out, I hadn't seen a movie in a theatre in a decade. Since Avatar came out, I saw it, Up and Star Trek, all 3 in 3d, and two of three in IMAX. If you're not showing off top of the line equipment, I'll just watch it at home.
If my local theatre can display The Hobbit in 48FPS, I will attend. If they do not, I will not. Simple as that.
Yes, idealism should be tempered by practicality. Tell me, as a practical matter, how is censorship better than counter propaganda?
Do you think that these people are just going to go away if you censor them? Do you think censorship won't help them paint themselves as persecuted, and serve as a marketing tool for them?
If you think Islamist propaganda is an effective recruitment tool, wouldn't anti-islamist propganda be just as effective? How are you going to counter their arguments if their indoctrination isn't taking place in public?
You can call me a fundamentalist if you like, but you haven't shown any reason to think that censorship is going to be effective. It certainly sets a nice precedent for suppressing dissenting opinions on Youtube though.
In a world with a strong public commons, private restrictions on speech don't affect free speech much. But in a world where the public commons has been impoverished, where almost everything is owned and controlled by (and to benefit) private interests, then freedom of speech only belongs to those who own the means of communication. That's not what we should expect from a democracy.
We once made it illegal to censor or tamper with communications on the state of the art communication network of the day... the US Postal Service. All the arguments in favor of a free and secure postal service apply to communication channels of all sorts.
If there were a public internet where free speech was protected, then yes I could see how Google's actions weren't contrary to free speech. But since we only have one internet, it should be operated for the public good, and the same restrictions should apply to private companies as would apply to the government.
Unfortunately, our Constitution is inadequate to provide this kind of protection, but that doesn't mean this restriction on free speech is "OK".
Do a little research on Blackwater/XE and you'll see just how much the law actually applies to private defense contractors.
If I wasn't clear, I was talking about what should be, not what is. Our government already has way too much power. We need more restrictions written into the constitution, and making warrants mandatory for all non-public information would be an effective and fair check on government power.
I can't get information from Google, because Google will say no. If I can't do it, the government shouldn't be able to do it without a warrant. Therefore, the government should have to get a warrant before accessing any information that isn't freely available to the public at large.
Government has been able to ask business for assistance since the founding of our country, and it does not run counter to the letter or spirit of the Constitution
And that's a huge part of what is wrong with this country. The government should have absolutely no special priviliges, unless it gets a warrant. If I can't do it, neither should the FBI, unless they can convince a judge that it's OK. No exceptions.
Ionizing or non-ionizing?
If ionizing, why are cell phones emitting ionizing radiation at all?
If non-ionizing, it's completely harmless. No sane person worrys about non-ionizing radiation.
Sure, but presumably it only has to be done once. Run your x86 to risc converter on the binary and you're done, right?
Johnson noise.
Nevermind that these things happen from time to time
A hundred million years of carbon deposits don't get released in a 200 year time frame "from time to time".
Exactly, the FDA is a means for the pharmaceutical industry to profit and prey on the weak. If you can't get cheap drugs from Canada, you'll buy the overpriced American drugs.
If they really cared about the patient's health, they'd be figuring out ways to get real drugs to patients for a reasonable price without importing. But I don't see that happening.