There's some natural gas, too. As for oil: who knows what's a couple miles down. I don't know there's much in the way of exploration going on there. I've seen some seismic sounders (humongous machines) in a forest once, but that was in an area rich in natural gas. Rich as in natural gas seeping out in places, leading to closing up a small sand quarry, etc.
That is why that country has been kept in a perpetual state of being messed up for a century now. It is even why it was created into being by drawing the borders as they were drawn by the western powers that be, with 1/3 Kurdish, 1/3 Shia, and 1/3 Sunni territory to ensure continual political instability.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. When Iraq's borders were being drawn, its oil reserves were not a concern (1920s-1930s). They were pretty much unknown, compared to what we know today.
Yeah, but when they mess something up with extraction, it will make the recent Deepwater Horizon incident a nice memory. Methane clathrates are quite unstable, and when things go wrong you get a big-scale fuel-air explosion.
All it'd take is to hack them so that one would provide a sync master signal, with the other one slaved to it. Should be easier to do for cameras that have open source firmware available, I don't know about 3DMKII.
Woosh. What the AC meant is that there is taxation without representation. Since people who pay taxes can't vote, the national debt is much less likely to go away anytime soon.
I don't think that standard CCTV cameras are an answer to anything. The resolution is so poor that you can barely make out individual people, much less try to identify them. I think any sort of a surveillance effort would be best served by using regular digital cameras, with as big of an image sensor as you can affordably find, with some decent, run-of-the-mill lens. Those can typically snap pictures at a couple Hz, and would be more than enough to capture what's going on and have enough resolution to identify people.
I used to think that HD cameras would be an answer, but the resolution improvement compared to SD is too small, and there is really no need to have a 25 or 50fps acquisition rate. 3-5Hz is more than enough for surveillance, I now think.
What I was hoping for was a methodical workup of the chemistry of digestion, the caloric inputs/outputs of various chemical reactions, and a final tally. So far it's all conjecture:(
Tell this to a kid whose name is Chulalongkorn Ramathibodi. It's a matter of being practical. Those are account numbers, that's all. Ascribing some higher meaning to them is, well, you'll read more about it in psychiatric textbooks.
I would disagree. There are understood ways something like this could happen. Typically there would be an underlying metabolic condition, perhaps coincident with a bunch of other unfortunate genetic circumstances, so that your CNS is exposed to things it's sensitive to.
Those are perfect storms of coincidences, so may not be very likely, but when they do happen you'd expect exactly what the GP described.
It'd really help to do a binary ingredient search. Once you narrow it down, it's very easy to do a blind study.
I'd think the major contributing annoyance is that complete and honest ingredient lists may not be readily available for stuff we eat. It'd help if there were online tools where you could enter a bunch of UPC codes, arrive with a superset of ingredients, and get guidance for doing binary searches for culprit(s).
I don't know if what you have is an allergy. It's certainly a reaction to eggs, but it may not be an immuno-mediated reaction. You may be metabolizing things in a weird way. Eggs have sulphur compounds in them, so perhaps there's a mutation somewhere in your genetic makeup that causes some sulphur-bearing metabolite to get where it shouldn't.
There are whole countries where white bread is a staple food, eaten for breakfast and dinner, and people used not to be obese in those places. Somehow the fall of iron curtain changed things for worse.
There wasn't a single overweight kid in my group in high school, and we all ate sweet pastries and drank pop in moderation. This is in stark contrast to some families that only drink carbonated sugary drinks, and nothing else. You can easily spot them at the grocery store. There's no reason for a parent to be loading up weekly on pallets of 2 liter soda bottles, unless that's all you drink at home.
I fully believe your story, it doesn't contradict what I'm saying. I said that most additives are non-toxic, and they are. Individual adverse reactions are fine and dandy -- you have to be vigilant. After all, noone bars peanuts from being sold, yet to some people they are quite deadly. It's all a matter of education and some thinking and putting the two and two together. Just like peanuts can be bad for someone, other common food ingredients can be, too.
I'd suggest you re-try with store-bought tortillas, then get all the ingredients and do a binary search for the culprit. It may make things easier for your wife.
It's out in the open. It's only protected like a trade secret if you steal it from Apple. Reverse engineering a live example is fair game. Just that no one has posted their reverse-engineering notes. Yet.
I think that touchscreens aspire to the same problems as eye-tracker based pointer control: in both the control and visual inputs are mutually exclusive. If you use a touch screen, you can't see what you're pointing at. With an eye-tracker control, you can't see anything but what you're pointing at. Both equally bad scenarios.
I think that eye motion and touch screens were first imagined to be input devices by SF writers who couldn't foresee all of the shortcomings of those input methods.
Give me a separate keyboard and mouse/trackpad any day.
In similar vein, I think that people overestimate the value of having certain "important" answers. Do we really care for an "ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything"? What insight would such an answer give us? What would be its predictive power? -- for without one, it wouldn't have anything to do with science, either. I think that 42 should really be the ultimate answer. It's useless, just as any other answer to such a question would be.
The major problem with ID and similar are that they are not really scientific theories. So of IDers claims may be true, but there's no way to test for it, ergo knowing that to be true gives us nothing of any practical value. There's no way to use the fact that IDers are right for anything in real life. I can use the theory of evolution to predict behaviors of real cell cultures, or of certain machine learning algorithms, ID does not give me any of that. And so on...
There's something about yesterday's meat on a tomorrow's sandwich. The taste is just too good to be true, almost. I would do the same with the meatloaf sandwiches. My wife makes a mean sandwich paste from leftover grilled meat (steak, chicken, burgers).
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There's some natural gas, too. As for oil: who knows what's a couple miles down. I don't know there's much in the way of exploration going on there. I've seen some seismic sounders (humongous machines) in a forest once, but that was in an area rich in natural gas. Rich as in natural gas seeping out in places, leading to closing up a small sand quarry, etc.
That is why that country has been kept in a perpetual state of being messed up for a century now. It is even why it was created into being by drawing the borders as they were drawn by the western powers that be, with 1/3 Kurdish, 1/3 Shia, and 1/3 Sunni territory to ensure continual political instability.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. When Iraq's borders were being drawn, its oil reserves were not a concern (1920s-1930s). They were pretty much unknown, compared to what we know today.
Yeah, but when they mess something up with extraction, it will make the recent Deepwater Horizon incident a nice memory. Methane clathrates are quite unstable, and when things go wrong you get a big-scale fuel-air explosion.
All it'd take is to hack them so that one would provide a sync master signal, with the other one slaved to it. Should be easier to do for cameras that have open source firmware available, I don't know about 3DMKII.
Woosh. What the AC meant is that there is taxation without representation. Since people who pay taxes can't vote, the national debt is much less likely to go away anytime soon.
I don't think that standard CCTV cameras are an answer to anything. The resolution is so poor that you can barely make out individual people, much less try to identify them. I think any sort of a surveillance effort would be best served by using regular digital cameras, with as big of an image sensor as you can affordably find, with some decent, run-of-the-mill lens. Those can typically snap pictures at a couple Hz, and would be more than enough to capture what's going on and have enough resolution to identify people.
I used to think that HD cameras would be an answer, but the resolution improvement compared to SD is too small, and there is really no need to have a 25 or 50fps acquisition rate. 3-5Hz is more than enough for surveillance, I now think.
To put it succinctly: I'm not impressed. "Science" indeed.
What I was hoping for was a methodical workup of the chemistry of digestion, the caloric inputs/outputs of various chemical reactions, and a final tally. So far it's all conjecture :(
Care for a citation? How was that determined?
I concur.
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Tell this to a kid whose name is Chulalongkorn Ramathibodi. It's a matter of being practical. Those are account numbers, that's all. Ascribing some higher meaning to them is, well, you'll read more about it in psychiatric textbooks.
I would disagree. There are understood ways something like this could happen. Typically there would be an underlying metabolic condition, perhaps coincident with a bunch of other unfortunate genetic circumstances, so that your CNS is exposed to things it's sensitive to.
Those are perfect storms of coincidences, so may not be very likely, but when they do happen you'd expect exactly what the GP described.
It'd really help to do a binary ingredient search. Once you narrow it down, it's very easy to do a blind study.
I'd think the major contributing annoyance is that complete and honest ingredient lists may not be readily available for stuff we eat. It'd help if there were online tools where you could enter a bunch of UPC codes, arrive with a superset of ingredients, and get guidance for doing binary searches for culprit(s).
Same here. It's quite common, but most primary care providers stare at you like sheep into the headlights and don't know what to do :(
I don't know if what you have is an allergy. It's certainly a reaction to eggs, but it may not be an immuno-mediated reaction. You may be metabolizing things in a weird way. Eggs have sulphur compounds in them, so perhaps there's a mutation somewhere in your genetic makeup that causes some sulphur-bearing metabolite to get where it shouldn't.
There are whole countries where white bread is a staple food, eaten for breakfast and dinner, and people used not to be obese in those places. Somehow the fall of iron curtain changed things for worse.
The buns and pizza dough were often mixed grain and quite tasty. Just sayin'. And the portion sizes were European.
There wasn't a single overweight kid in my group in high school, and we all ate sweet pastries and drank pop in moderation. This is in stark contrast to some families that only drink carbonated sugary drinks, and nothing else. You can easily spot them at the grocery store. There's no reason for a parent to be loading up weekly on pallets of 2 liter soda bottles, unless that's all you drink at home.
I fully believe your story, it doesn't contradict what I'm saying. I said that most additives are non-toxic, and they are. Individual adverse reactions are fine and dandy -- you have to be vigilant. After all, noone bars peanuts from being sold, yet to some people they are quite deadly. It's all a matter of education and some thinking and putting the two and two together. Just like peanuts can be bad for someone, other common food ingredients can be, too.
I'd suggest you re-try with store-bought tortillas, then get all the ingredients and do a binary search for the culprit. It may make things easier for your wife.
Interesting. Sulphur dioxide is such a simple compound. I wonder how it works on one's CNS.
It's out in the open. It's only protected like a trade secret if you steal it from Apple. Reverse engineering a live example is fair game. Just that no one has posted their reverse-engineering notes. Yet.
I think that touchscreens aspire to the same problems as eye-tracker based pointer control: in both the control and visual inputs are mutually exclusive. If you use a touch screen, you can't see what you're pointing at. With an eye-tracker control, you can't see anything but what you're pointing at. Both equally bad scenarios.
I think that eye motion and touch screens were first imagined to be input devices by SF writers who couldn't foresee all of the shortcomings of those input methods.
Give me a separate keyboard and mouse/trackpad any day.
I agree wholeheartedly.
In similar vein, I think that people overestimate the value of having certain "important" answers. Do we really care for an "ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything"? What insight would such an answer give us? What would be its predictive power? -- for without one, it wouldn't have anything to do with science, either. I think that 42 should really be the ultimate answer. It's useless, just as any other answer to such a question would be.
The major problem with ID and similar are that they are not really scientific theories. So of IDers claims may be true, but there's no way to test for it, ergo knowing that to be true gives us nothing of any practical value. There's no way to use the fact that IDers are right for anything in real life. I can use the theory of evolution to predict behaviors of real cell cultures, or of certain machine learning algorithms, ID does not give me any of that. And so on...
There's something about yesterday's meat on a tomorrow's sandwich. The taste is just too good to be true, almost. I would do the same with the meatloaf sandwiches. My wife makes a mean sandwich paste from leftover grilled meat (steak, chicken, burgers).