That can't work. Who's the next in line for Kim Jong Un? He's 26 and doesn't have a kid (or if he does it's a very young child). He wouldn't have died of natural causes other than congenital defects or accidentally. Both notoriously hard to replicate in an assassination attempt. The death for any reason of Kim Jong Un would be blamed on us. The next guy would likely be a military officer. His death would probably only be explainable as assassination.
It's not that simple or easy. Even unhealthily heavy people like KJU (who isn't all that fat, probably mildly obese) wouldn't drop dead without a reason.
Get the US to pull out the 8th Army in exchange for China dropping all support for NK, and we'd be getting somewhere.
This sounds good, but that would be absolutely terrible for Japan. Remember, Japan isn't allowed a standing army or navy (officially). They do have the JSDF and the JMSDF, but both forces wouldn't be able to protect them in all out war, which is what their insecure about. Japan is a major trading partner, and they're going to throw a fit if we make them feel vulnerable. There's been a lot of saber rattling between Japan and China in the last few months over minor islands of little value. If we appear to be too chummy with China over diplomatic and military strategy, Japan's going to make a world of hurt for us since we're their ally in the saber rattling (unofficially)
In one sense yes, if they starve if we stop giving them food it's their own fault for not building the infrastructure to support themselves. But it also can be interpreted as our fault as well for getting them hooked on handouts in the first place and then withdrawing aid.
It really depends on which interpretation you choose. If you're willing to achieve your political goals at the expense of the innocent populous, it's easy to reason that the starvation of the people is the fault of the regime l. But on the other hand we're the ones supporting the people and stopping aid is the same as condemning them to starvation that we can prevent, which is pretty cold blooded. It's not the fault of the innocent that they can't feed themselves after all.
The game theory here is very frustrating. Given the goals we want to achieve (nuclear disarmament) and the constraints we have (the North Korean people should suffer as little as possible) and the methods available (diplomatic attempts at disarmament, full embargo, all-out war, and brinksmanship) there's really no way to go forward and get what we want without either a lot of North or South Korean blood on our hands.
We could stop sending food aid to increase pressure, but the innocent people in NK will starve.
We could attempt diplomacy as usual, but that's simply ineffective and a waste of time since the regime won't ever be serious with us.
We could go to war and try to kill/depose all of the top brass, but it would be an unpopular war, kill a lot of innocent NK and SK people, get China pissed as hell at us, and be incredibly expensive.
War would also put China in the shitty position of having to deal with a gigantic influx of refugees who would be an economic burden and wouldn't be able to socially integrate.
Then we have brinksmanship. Up until the 1990s our strategy was to attempt diplomatic disarmament, but during the 1990s that broke down pretty badly. Today we're playing a brinksmanship game while still attempting to send aid and trying to work on disarmament. This is just peachy for the NK top brass. They get to make any ridiculous proclamations they want, refuse to disarm, and get food aid anyway. Meanwhile, China is backing them in order to keep from dealing with refugees.
I can't see any way out. I'd be hopeful of revolution, which makes sense if it were a country with a Westernized culture, but the NK regime is too powerful, and the people are too uneducated and isolated to free themselves. It's a perfect storm, and any solution to the problem of NK is going to be VERY ugly to say the least. It won't have any net positive for many years, any way you try to slice up the situation.
The downside for them is their economies don't rebound like other nations
It seems to me that the US economy hasn't rebounded to any greater extent than the rest of the world. It's just deformed. It scrunched a ton of people out of the middle class and into the lower class, and a bunch of money got scrunched up to the upper class. Now that the heat of deformation has cooled, the upper class has simply started playing with its new money. We're worse off even though the stock market is picking up.
I saw a University of Washington (I get the TV channels) lecture on a study of natural vision coding
They basically hooked a monkey's optic nerve into a ton of monitoring electrodes, then showed the monkey a set of images while recording. They then programmed a Neural network to replicate the exact same output as the monkey with the same input, and hooked it into blind monkeys testing against the calibration we use today in humans.
The standard calibration method is the squares test. They send a pulse to each electrode and have the subject point at the relative location on an easel where they see a flash from the activation. So for a 64 electrode system, the subject sees 64 flashes. They're then tested on shapes and sizes of objects (object recognition)
The blind monkeys were trained this method using the standard equipment and coding, (testing for grapes and dice). But when they split them into two groups, the monkeys with the neural net coding did much better after a couple of weeks after they got their coding replaced with the neuralnet input from a human.
I don't think there was a stellar control in the study, but the results are intriguing, and I think it merits further research. Perhaps with MRI mapping of how the optic nerve connects to the visual processing area, and how it changes during blindness.
McDonalds will rip off anyone they think is a sucker. Blind or Sighted. They simply are a gigantic corporation run by psychopaths (most corporations are) and staffed by idiots who will follow the protocol laid out by the psychopaths because they value their jobs and income more than their own humanity.
Yeah. Often Temperature is folded into touch, and balance is folded into a more general category of proprioception which includes the ability to tell the position and motion of body parts in space without having to look at them all the time, as well as whether the body parts are touching each other or moving on an intersecting path.
Personally I think smell and taste should be folded together. Really bad smells are often tasted, and without a sense of smell, taste loses so much acuity all it's really useful for is detecting whether something's poisonous.
I'm glad I grew up in a progressive state. There were three or four kids who got excused altogether from high school biology class, but there were a couple of mormon twins who stayed in, YEC kids. The teacher asked who believed the earth was six thousand years old on day one. The mormons were the only ones who raised their hands. The teacher then explained that they will be taught evolution, as thoroughly as possible in a year long bio course in sophomore year. He added that there would be no open book exams, the large homework payload and the twice weekly quizzes.
Those guys learned evolutionary theory, and history including what we covered in human evolution. The teacher picked on them at first, but eventually stopped when they were scoring better on tests and homework than 90% of the class. They both got close to 4.0s for the class, and by the time we were seniors had left the church. Their parents were so distraught. But I'm really glad those guys broke free of the shackles their family and inner community placed around their minds. They were too intelligent (and gay (not a dig)) to stay in the church, and are better off today than they ever could have been suppressing their personalities in the hive of the church.
It's not that common, but since I've been using Linux since I was a kid, KiB MiB and GiB are my base mental units of data. It makes no difference whether or not they're somehow "better" or "worse". It's just what I'm used to, and the base-2 convention seems to make more sense in the world of computing than base-10 numbers. Computers only work with base 2 numbers directly in any case.
I don't see how moving the moon into a higher orbit would change the earth-sun dynamic. If the moon's further away, it'll just have a smaller average tidal effect. It'll pull the earth less in all directions assuming the orbital eccentricity remains the same.
Keeping in this veign: What if the public exerted a selection pressure towards harmonizing the results between networks? Wouldn't that open up opportunities for abuse as well?
For instance, the public becomes outraged when, for example, FOX's algo says Obama's lying 84% of the time, while MSNBC says he's lying 22% of the time. If face is going to be saved, then both networks have an incentive to move toward each other's numbers. There'll probably be a point where they'll still differ, but not by enough to make very many people angry. But if that doesn't occour, and the networks are unwilling to lose any face as a consequence of showing their biases, they'll try to share their databases. Then you can control two networks reporting on Obama (or whoever), by modifying the database of just one network.
Kind of like a Darwin's Radio type of thing? The Neanderthals have an arsenal of deadly (N)ERVs that would wipe us out? Our genomes actually are CHOCK full of broken, deactivated endogenous retroviruses, but I don't have any numbers for how old they are, or how long it's been since they were last active.
Yup. Neandertals typically had faces pretty similar to h. sapiens sapiens. They were on average a bit shorter and stockier than anatomically modern humans, but with America's obesity epidemic, they probably wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
They had fairly heavy browridges, but the neanderthal average wasn't outside the limits of what you see with some AMHs even today.
Yep. They just never got around to thinking about the throwing spear/atl-atl. As soon as anatomically modern humans showed up on the scene, the Neanderthals were outcompeted for food. We realized throwing shit puts us at less risk than jabbing up close.
And I suppose long filenames are a big step down from 8.3 DOS filenames too? I mean, all of a sudden you have alot more choices allowed, and that's a hinderance to user peace of mind right?
FFS, get off your high horse. If you don't like *nix filenames don't use *nix. And if you have to use it at work, you're probably in the wrong profession.
I was precrbed adderal at the time (and taking it as prescribed) as well as a benzo sleep aid (I have had severe insomnia ever since I was very little).
The test only determines presence of the chemicals, not concentration. And I did switch from Adderal to concerta (which is time release methylphenidate), apparently trips the cocaine test (corroborated by the police and two doctors) so my folks stopped testing me fairly early, chalking weird behavior up to quirkiness and adolescent psychology.
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That can't work. Who's the next in line for Kim Jong Un? He's 26 and doesn't have a kid (or if he does it's a very young child). He wouldn't have died of natural causes other than congenital defects or accidentally. Both notoriously hard to replicate in an assassination attempt. The death for any reason of Kim Jong Un would be blamed on us. The next guy would likely be a military officer. His death would probably only be explainable as assassination.
It's not that simple or easy. Even unhealthily heavy people like KJU (who isn't all that fat, probably mildly obese) wouldn't drop dead without a reason.
What a very shortsighted viewpoint you have.
This sounds good, but that would be absolutely terrible for Japan. Remember, Japan isn't allowed a standing army or navy (officially). They do have the JSDF and the JMSDF, but both forces wouldn't be able to protect them in all out war, which is what their insecure about. Japan is a major trading partner, and they're going to throw a fit if we make them feel vulnerable. There's been a lot of saber rattling between Japan and China in the last few months over minor islands of little value. If we appear to be too chummy with China over diplomatic and military strategy, Japan's going to make a world of hurt for us since we're their ally in the saber rattling (unofficially)
In one sense yes, if they starve if we stop giving them food it's their own fault for not building the infrastructure to support themselves. But it also can be interpreted as our fault as well for getting them hooked on handouts in the first place and then withdrawing aid.
It really depends on which interpretation you choose. If you're willing to achieve your political goals at the expense of the innocent populous, it's easy to reason that the starvation of the people is the fault of the regime l. But on the other hand we're the ones supporting the people and stopping aid is the same as condemning them to starvation that we can prevent, which is pretty cold blooded. It's not the fault of the innocent that they can't feed themselves after all.
Yeah. But at least it wouldn't be our fault, but the will of the people and/or their charismatic leader
We can always dream, I suppose.
The game theory here is very frustrating. Given the goals we want to achieve (nuclear disarmament) and the constraints we have (the North Korean people should suffer as little as possible) and the methods available (diplomatic attempts at disarmament, full embargo, all-out war, and brinksmanship) there's really no way to go forward and get what we want without either a lot of North or South Korean blood on our hands.
Then we have brinksmanship. Up until the 1990s our strategy was to attempt diplomatic disarmament, but during the 1990s that broke down pretty badly. Today we're playing a brinksmanship game while still attempting to send aid and trying to work on disarmament. This is just peachy for the NK top brass. They get to make any ridiculous proclamations they want, refuse to disarm, and get food aid anyway. Meanwhile, China is backing them in order to keep from dealing with refugees.
I can't see any way out. I'd be hopeful of revolution, which makes sense if it were a country with a Westernized culture, but the NK regime is too powerful, and the people are too uneducated and isolated to free themselves. It's a perfect storm, and any solution to the problem of NK is going to be VERY ugly to say the least. It won't have any net positive for many years, any way you try to slice up the situation.
I said chromosomal DNA, which implies a nucleated cell, ie a eukaryote, in order to make my bad pun work.
I'm much worse than a pedant, I'm a punner, and nobody likes those.
More like Nuclear Chemistry if you ask me. Where else is the Chromosomal DNA found?
Yep.
I wonder how much federal money they were given to do this research.
If they were given ANY , we'd be right to storm the Nature's publishing house and just take as many copies as we wanted.
It seems to me that the US economy hasn't rebounded to any greater extent than the rest of the world. It's just deformed. It scrunched a ton of people out of the middle class and into the lower class, and a bunch of money got scrunched up to the upper class. Now that the heat of deformation has cooled, the upper class has simply started playing with its new money. We're worse off even though the stock market is picking up.
Or you could go with neither and have hundreds of square kilometers of rock/concrete texture *Cough*MassEffect*Cough*
I saw a University of Washington (I get the TV channels) lecture on a study of natural vision coding
They basically hooked a monkey's optic nerve into a ton of monitoring electrodes, then showed the monkey a set of images while recording. They then programmed a Neural network to replicate the exact same output as the monkey with the same input, and hooked it into blind monkeys testing against the calibration we use today in humans.
The standard calibration method is the squares test. They send a pulse to each electrode and have the subject point at the relative location on an easel where they see a flash from the activation. So for a 64 electrode system, the subject sees 64 flashes. They're then tested on shapes and sizes of objects (object recognition)
The blind monkeys were trained this method using the standard equipment and coding, (testing for grapes and dice). But when they split them into two groups, the monkeys with the neural net coding did much better after a couple of weeks after they got their coding replaced with the neuralnet input from a human.
I don't think there was a stellar control in the study, but the results are intriguing, and I think it merits further research. Perhaps with MRI mapping of how the optic nerve connects to the visual processing area, and how it changes during blindness.
McDonalds will rip off anyone they think is a sucker. Blind or Sighted. They simply are a gigantic corporation run by psychopaths (most corporations are) and staffed by idiots who will follow the protocol laid out by the psychopaths because they value their jobs and income more than their own humanity.
Yeah. Often Temperature is folded into touch, and balance is folded into a more general category of proprioception which includes the ability to tell the position and motion of body parts in space without having to look at them all the time, as well as whether the body parts are touching each other or moving on an intersecting path.
Personally I think smell and taste should be folded together. Really bad smells are often tasted, and without a sense of smell, taste loses so much acuity all it's really useful for is detecting whether something's poisonous.
No, it's not a generalization of your religious experience or mormonism on the whole. It's a personal anecdote and a story that makes me hopeful.
Whether YEC is an official doctrine of the LDS is irrelevant. These guys were YECers, and that's a simple fact.
They were forced to learn the science and that gave them a chance to examine their own beliefs. Eventually they saw what they were taught was wrong.
I don't know why they were indoctrinated with YEC, perhaps they were converts from some sect of christianity that practiced biblical literalism.
I'm glad I grew up in a progressive state. There were three or four kids who got excused altogether from high school biology class, but there were a couple of mormon twins who stayed in, YEC kids. The teacher asked who believed the earth was six thousand years old on day one. The mormons were the only ones who raised their hands. The teacher then explained that they will be taught evolution, as thoroughly as possible in a year long bio course in sophomore year. He added that there would be no open book exams, the large homework payload and the twice weekly quizzes.
Those guys learned evolutionary theory, and history including what we covered in human evolution. The teacher picked on them at first, but eventually stopped when they were scoring better on tests and homework than 90% of the class. They both got close to 4.0s for the class, and by the time we were seniors had left the church. Their parents were so distraught. But I'm really glad those guys broke free of the shackles their family and inner community placed around their minds. They were too intelligent (and gay (not a dig)) to stay in the church, and are better off today than they ever could have been suppressing their personalities in the hive of the church.
It's not that common, but since I've been using Linux since I was a kid, KiB MiB and GiB are my base mental units of data. It makes no difference whether or not they're somehow "better" or "worse". It's just what I'm used to, and the base-2 convention seems to make more sense in the world of computing than base-10 numbers. Computers only work with base 2 numbers directly in any case.
I don't see how moving the moon into a higher orbit would change the earth-sun dynamic. If the moon's further away, it'll just have a smaller average tidal effect. It'll pull the earth less in all directions assuming the orbital eccentricity remains the same.
Keeping in this veign:
What if the public exerted a selection pressure towards harmonizing the results between networks? Wouldn't that open up opportunities for abuse as well?
For instance, the public becomes outraged when, for example, FOX's algo says Obama's lying 84% of the time, while MSNBC says he's lying 22% of the time. If face is going to be saved, then both networks have an incentive to move toward each other's numbers. There'll probably be a point where they'll still differ, but not by enough to make very many people angry. But if that doesn't occour, and the networks are unwilling to lose any face as a consequence of showing their biases, they'll try to share their databases. Then you can control two networks reporting on Obama (or whoever), by modifying the database of just one network.
Kind of like a Darwin's Radio type of thing? The Neanderthals have an arsenal of deadly (N)ERVs that would wipe us out? Our genomes actually are CHOCK full of broken, deactivated endogenous retroviruses, but I don't have any numbers for how old they are, or how long it's been since they were last active.
Yup. Neandertals typically had faces pretty similar to h. sapiens sapiens. They were on average a bit shorter and stockier than anatomically modern humans, but with America's obesity epidemic, they probably wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
They had fairly heavy browridges, but the neanderthal average wasn't outside the limits of what you see with some AMHs even today.
Yep. They just never got around to thinking about the throwing spear/atl-atl. As soon as anatomically modern humans showed up on the scene, the Neanderthals were outcompeted for food. We realized throwing shit puts us at less risk than jabbing up close.
Bollocks
And I suppose long filenames are a big step down from 8.3 DOS filenames too? I mean, all of a sudden you have alot more choices allowed, and that's a hinderance to user peace of mind right?
FFS, get off your high horse. If you don't like *nix filenames don't use *nix. And if you have to use it at work, you're probably in the wrong profession.
I was precrbed adderal at the time (and taking it as prescribed) as well as a benzo sleep aid (I have had severe insomnia ever since I was very little).
The test only determines presence of the chemicals, not concentration. And I did switch from Adderal to concerta (which is time release methylphenidate), apparently trips the cocaine test (corroborated by the police and two doctors) so my folks stopped testing me fairly early, chalking weird behavior up to quirkiness and adolescent psychology.