Especially if you have a family you are taking care of. You have that extra drive to make sure your daughter will grow up in a free country, but that's tempered by the knowledge that certain acts of civil disobedience (or extrapolating to an illegally oppressive government - those may be acts of constitutional obedience) may place you in custody/court for a sufficient amount of time to lose your job. That could result in failure to pay mortgage, inability to obtain another job within your career, etc...
This is the insidious danger inherent in the erosion of freedom: not enough to die for, not even enough to make you homeless or hungry or inconvenienced over, but enough, over time, to leave you with a shallow shadow of what our ancestors died for.
69% have not had pay raises in the last six months
They work in an industry where 31% have received pay raises across a short span of time which likely doesn't intersect with the organization's fiscal year (e.g. did many run on Federal or Calendar years). [sarcasm] Oh, my - what a hardship.[/sarcasm] In such a climate as this - that sounds pretty good to me. You want to talk about flat pay - then make that time period at least a year, and compare it to other fields.
Not to mention that the undead army never made it to Pelannor Fields. They defeated the Corsairs of Umbar, were released from service, and the reinforcements came from the freed slaves and the now un-besieged coastal region.
Allowing Saruman his final chance of redemption (to wait out the war & think about why he (and other Istari) was sent to middle earth), show that even Fangorn was susceptible to Saruman's final evil skill (voice), and show the damage which can still be caused by a hollowed out "powerless" voice set loose among a good-natured group such as the Shire, cheats Gandalf and Saruman of character and Tolkien of some of his more subtle points. Not to mention cheating the Shire of it's endurance before and hard-will after the rising sparked by the returning hobbits.
So the whole wicker basket thing is back in style as religious expression?
That is of course why the Romans took offense to the religion and subsequently wiped it out. Something about not liking the way the Gaul's religious self expression involved unwilling Roman participants.
Yes - that is the case with these new cells. They are made pluripotent - able to be reprogrammed into many other types of cells.
These advances from skin cells (& fat and a few others...) have the awesome benefit of matching the donor's DNA (not true with embryonic - thus it's likely to have rejection issues with something like new organs).
It also allows (in most cases) for us to avoid that sketchy issue of how many living human cells crosses the threshold into human life (inheriting inalienable human rights). (Or how many types interacting, or whether you need nerves, or brain stem, heartbeat, etc...)
... If we were contacted by aliens, that would mean that they have conquered FTL travel....
Or they're just very patient
"Dad, are we there yet? How much farther to go?"
"We're doing 0.7 photonic here and only another 3500 light years to go son"
"But I'm hungry! And I think Zarthog needs changing again."
"Fine, I'll check the charts and decel for the next planet with self replicating proteins, but this is the last time! If you ask again, so help me, I'll pilot this ship straight into an event horizon!"/p>
The type of Alzheimer's they talk about here is caused by ß-amyloidosis which is a mis folded protein disease (prion - like mad cow). What happens is that normal secondary protein structure is converted from an form to ß causing conformational changes in the protein's tertiary structure leading to insolubility (this insoluble protein is now called an amyloid). Supposedly the Rice researchers have found a way to prevent the ß-amyloid deposits from causing cell damage, however unless it's 100% efficient it won't be enough because misfolded proteins are "contagious" - that is they cause other normally folded protiens to convert to the insoluble misfolded amyloid which will proceed with exponential growth. Eventually you'll have every one of those proteins in the ß configuration.
I'm more concerned about the fact that the suit is against someone who was a minor at the time of the incident. It seems to me that the guardian (parents) should be responsible in a civil case, and a criminal case (which this isn't) should have taken place in a juvenile court (speedily - you know, all that 6th Amendment stuff).
I was expanding on your premise of practical limitations (size and transfer speed) and why, due to that reason, the format isn't dead (and won't be for a while) because digital (video)cameras let parents take huge gobs of cute kiddy pictures* which grandparents want to see. There are also plenty of other reasons to prefer Blue-ray as a (home burnable) media than the size/transfer limitations you brought up in reference to the failure of the internet in providing instant gratification.
I would suggest that this style of use is also a significant portion of Blue-ray driving market force - perhaps an even more sustainable one than the HD movie market.
*Which you can't delete unless you genuinely are such a bad parent that you want to trash precious memories of your children's childhood.
You know that little thing with the initials EULA? No, you do not own Starcraft 2. It is highly unlikely you own any software on any physical or virtual device in your possession or control. Modern digital rights management is merely an attempt to control rights we consumers have passively yielded for years. From what I've heard there's not much case law in the EULA area, especially where it comes to the doctrine of sale; but it'd sure be nice to know if (or when) the practice of asking the neighbor kid to come over and click accept is still recommended protection for one's immortal soul.
...let's not forget practical limitations. A Bluray holds 50 gigabytes of data. Downloading that over my 750k DSL connection would take 7 days, and there are a lot of people who don't have even that speed (still suck on dialup)...
And what may I ask is your upload speed? Not enough for important file backups or sharing I bet.
Families can't afford to fork over the cash for a professional tape backup system, don't have the up-rate for internet backups, but are more than willing to spend $100 on a drive to burn the pictures and videos of baby's first Christmas (I know I was). The bonus is you can send them to the grandparents for off-site storage and it will be the "best gift ever!"
He said birds. I think that's only about a tenth of the number of pigeons currently residing in Trafalgar Square, so surely we've got a few candidates for that over on this side of the pond.
No - the accidental triggering is not going to be that sort of critical (you may get criticality depending on the design, but it'll be the sideways fizzle kind that leave a nasty mess, but not vaporization of the small city). Mostly it doesn't work and makes pollution. If you are that bad at designing the initiation sequence for your explosives you're probably going to design yourself into oblivion with a poor road system before you even get that far.
And the irony is that knowing *how* to make a nuclear weapon isn't even a well kept secret.. AT ALL.
True in some senses. Most junior high kids interested in the physical sciences could describe a gun type or spherical type fission bomb. One might even get the concept of the implosion lens (make the shockwaves match up & stuff).
Knowing the general theory isn't exactly the same as: make a hemisphere of diameter X out of alloy Y, or: blend explosives A, B, C, D in the gradient {a, b, c, d}, or perhaps: the tritium concentration must be above n mass percent, or maybe: the neutron flux shall be Z or thou shalt surely fail in epic fashion.
We went through a lot of atolls worth of data to get the specifics of our top secret data. Depending on what's leaked you've eliminated a lot of obvious R&D (especially to the IAEA) and given somebody a highly advanced warhead (Firefox 3 vs Lynx 1).
Some people claim that the declassified or otherwise published data has not been altered and has pretty precise blueprints, but until someone verifies that through a DIY atol removal, I think there's a decent chance that at least some of the information has been cleverly and subtly altered before public release. Otherwise I'd have expected quite a few more nuclear powers given the easy information.
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Especially if you have a family you are taking care of. You have that extra drive to make sure your daughter will grow up in a free country, but that's tempered by the knowledge that certain acts of civil disobedience (or extrapolating to an illegally oppressive government - those may be acts of constitutional obedience) may place you in custody/court for a sufficient amount of time to lose your job. That could result in failure to pay mortgage, inability to obtain another job within your career, etc...
I like to think that my daughter will still think of me as her hero and role model when she grows up, and I know my wife would support me (we'd probably be in trouble together actually) if it were one of the Big freedom issues. So what do you do when it's things like back scatter screening on a field-trip to the courthouse or driving through a DUI checkpoint in the coldest form of sobriety?
This is the insidious danger inherent in the erosion of freedom: not enough to die for, not even enough to make you homeless or hungry or inconvenienced over, but enough, over time, to leave you with a shallow shadow of what our ancestors died for.
They work in an industry where 31% have received pay raises across a short span of time which likely doesn't intersect with the organization's fiscal year (e.g. did many run on Federal or Calendar years). [sarcasm] Oh, my - what a hardship.[/sarcasm] In such a climate as this - that sounds pretty good to me. You want to talk about flat pay - then make that time period at least a year, and compare it to other fields.
It's not so much the CEO pay that concerns me as it is the ratio to everyone else in the company.
Dude - spoiler alert!
I'm sure there's got to be someone interested in nerdy tech news (and how it pertains to movies) who hasn't seen...
...never mind, I concede the point.
Yeah - the trouble with a movie about a bunch of dwarves and a hobbit is deciding on who gets the short straw - there's not enough to go around.
Not to mention that the undead army never made it to Pelannor Fields. They defeated the Corsairs of Umbar, were released from service, and the reinforcements came from the freed slaves and the now un-besieged coastal region.
Allowing Saruman his final chance of redemption (to wait out the war & think about why he (and other Istari) was sent to middle earth), show that even Fangorn was susceptible to Saruman's final evil skill (voice), and show the damage which can still be caused by a hollowed out "powerless" voice set loose among a good-natured group such as the Shire, cheats Gandalf and Saruman of character and Tolkien of some of his more subtle points. Not to mention cheating the Shire of it's endurance before and hard-will after the rising sparked by the returning hobbits.
So the whole wicker basket thing is back in style as religious expression?
That is of course why the Romans took offense to the religion and subsequently wiped it out. Something about not liking the way the Gaul's religious self expression involved unwilling Roman participants.
Yes - that is the case with these new cells. They are made pluripotent - able to be reprogrammed into many other types of cells.
These advances from skin cells (& fat and a few others...) have the awesome benefit of matching the donor's DNA (not true with embryonic - thus it's likely to have rejection issues with something like new organs).
It also allows (in most cases) for us to avoid that sketchy issue of how many living human cells crosses the threshold into human life (inheriting inalienable human rights). (Or how many types interacting, or whether you need nerves, or brain stem, heartbeat, etc...)
...declaw, descent, groom, paint, microchip, shock-collar, train to do embarrassing tricks, forget to clean the box, etc...
... If we were contacted by aliens, that would mean that they have conquered FTL travel....
Or they're just very patient
"Dad, are we there yet? How much farther to go?"
"We're doing 0.7 photonic here and only another 3500 light years to go son"
"But I'm hungry! And I think Zarthog needs changing again."
"Fine, I'll check the charts and decel for the next planet with self replicating proteins, but this is the last time! If you ask again, so help me, I'll pilot this ship straight into an event horizon!"/p>
With the technology required to fly intersteller distances, how could they even be interested in a shiny piece of aluminum?
I know, it was probably sarcasm, but I would see the aliens being more interested in android :)
Nah - they'll go Apple. If we know anything about that company they're probably already winning the intergalactic marketing war.
Nice idea!
I'd like to designate my share to said plan.
Sticks and stones may break my... planet?
And creators.
Now that the western world (especially the US) has an obesity issue, they might just decide that the time is right to migrate back ;)
The type of Alzheimer's they talk about here is caused by ß-amyloidosis which is a mis folded protein disease (prion - like mad cow). What happens is that normal secondary protein structure is converted from an form to ß causing conformational changes in the protein's tertiary structure leading to insolubility (this insoluble protein is now called an amyloid). Supposedly the Rice researchers have found a way to prevent the ß-amyloid deposits from causing cell damage, however unless it's 100% efficient it won't be enough because misfolded proteins are "contagious" - that is they cause other normally folded protiens to convert to the insoluble misfolded amyloid which will proceed with exponential growth. Eventually you'll have every one of those proteins in the ß configuration.
Pratchett has early onset which tends to be faster paced.
Never known anyone with the disease have you?
I'm more concerned about the fact that the suit is against someone who was a minor at the time of the incident. It seems to me that the guardian (parents) should be responsible in a civil case, and a criminal case (which this isn't) should have taken place in a juvenile court (speedily - you know, all that 6th Amendment stuff).
I was expanding on your premise of practical limitations (size and transfer speed) and why, due to that reason, the format isn't dead (and won't be for a while) because digital (video)cameras let parents take huge gobs of cute kiddy pictures* which grandparents want to see. There are also plenty of other reasons to prefer Blue-ray as a (home burnable) media than the size/transfer limitations you brought up in reference to the failure of the internet in providing instant gratification.
I would suggest that this style of use is also a significant portion of Blue-ray driving market force - perhaps an even more sustainable one than the HD movie market.
*Which you can't delete unless you genuinely are such a bad parent that you want to trash precious memories of your children's childhood.
So, I do not own my copy of starcraft 2?
You know that little thing with the initials EULA? No, you do not own Starcraft 2. It is highly unlikely you own any software on any physical or virtual device in your possession or control. Modern digital rights management is merely an attempt to control rights we consumers have passively yielded for years. From what I've heard there's not much case law in the EULA area, especially where it comes to the doctrine of sale; but it'd sure be nice to know if (or when) the practice of asking the neighbor kid to come over and click accept is still recommended protection for one's immortal soul.
...let's not forget practical limitations. A Bluray holds 50 gigabytes of data. Downloading that over my 750k DSL connection would take 7 days, and there are a lot of people who don't have even that speed (still suck on dialup)...
And what may I ask is your upload speed? Not enough for important file backups or sharing I bet.
Families can't afford to fork over the cash for a professional tape backup system, don't have the up-rate for internet backups, but are more than willing to spend $100 on a drive to burn the pictures and videos of baby's first Christmas (I know I was). The bonus is you can send them to the grandparents for off-site storage and it will be the "best gift ever!"
He said birds. I think that's only about a tenth of the number of pigeons currently residing in Trafalgar Square, so surely we've got a few candidates for that over on this side of the pond.
No - the accidental triggering is not going to be that sort of critical (you may get criticality depending on the design, but it'll be the sideways fizzle kind that leave a nasty mess, but not vaporization of the small city). Mostly it doesn't work and makes pollution. If you are that bad at designing the initiation sequence for your explosives you're probably going to design yourself into oblivion with a poor road system before you even get that far.
And the irony is that knowing *how* to make a nuclear weapon isn't even a well kept secret.. AT ALL.
True in some senses. Most junior high kids interested in the physical sciences could describe a gun type or spherical type fission bomb. One might even get the concept of the implosion lens (make the shockwaves match up & stuff).
Knowing the general theory isn't exactly the same as: make a hemisphere of diameter X out of alloy Y, or: blend explosives A, B, C, D in the gradient {a, b, c, d}, or perhaps: the tritium concentration must be above n mass percent, or maybe: the neutron flux shall be Z or thou shalt surely fail in epic fashion.
We went through a lot of atolls worth of data to get the specifics of our top secret data. Depending on what's leaked you've eliminated a lot of obvious R&D (especially to the IAEA) and given somebody a highly advanced warhead (Firefox 3 vs Lynx 1).
Some people claim that the declassified or otherwise published data has not been altered and has pretty precise blueprints, but until someone verifies that through a DIY atol removal, I think there's a decent chance that at least some of the information has been cleverly and subtly altered before public release. Otherwise I'd have expected quite a few more nuclear powers given the easy information.